Daniel Radcliffe, actor

Desert Island Discs

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🗓️ 15 March 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Radcliffe reached a global audience in the title role of the hugely successful Harry Potter films. He has also appeared on Broadway and in the West End, as well as in over a dozen films since the final part of the Harry Potter series was released in 2011. Born in 1989, the only child of Alan and Marcia Radcliffe, Daniel made his acting debut aged 10 in a BBC adaptation of David Copperfield. The following year he was cast as Harry Potter, and he and his co-stars, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, would spend ten years filming the series. Daniel made a point of taking other roles before it had finished, and he appeared on stage in Peter Shaffer’s play Equus in 2007, a role which involved prolonged full frontal nudity. Since then he has appeared on screen, on stage and on television, playing characters from the beat poet Allen Ginsberg to a cop going undercover as a neo-Nazi, and his recent films include Guns Akimbo and Escape from Pretoria. In the theatre, he is appearing in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame in London. He supports the Trevor Project which works to prevent suicides among LGBTQ youth and which Daniel first became aware of during the Broadway run of Equus in 2008. Daniel has been in a long-term relationship with fellow actor Erin Darke who he met on a film set in 2012. Presenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Cathy Drysdale

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.7	Hello, I'm Lauren LeVern and this is the Desert Island Disks Podcast.
0:08.4	Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take with them
0:13.6	if they were cast away to a desert island.
0:16.1	This is an extended version of the original Radio 4 broadcast and for right reasons
0:21.3	the music is shorter than the original broadcast. I hope you enjoy listening.
0:30.7	Music Radio Music
0:47.4	My cast away this week is Daniel Radcliffe. If anybody earned their chance to kick back and relax
0:52.8	on a desert island early, it's him. At 12 he was catapulted into the limelight by his big
0:58.0	screen portrayal of Harry Potter. Ten years playing the role earned him worldwide fame,
1:02.8	fortune, a place in cinema history. The Harry Potter films are second only to Star Wars as the
1:08.0	most successful franchise of all time and made him a beloved part of family life all around the world.
1:14.3	All of which could have been an excuse to take things easy, not for him. At 30 he's
1:19.5	keener than ever to explore the creative possibilities of life after the boy who lived, appearing on
1:25.0	stage in New York and in London and taking on a dizzyingly numerous variety of roles.
1:30.2	One minute he's an angel, the next and explore a stranded in the Bolivian jungle,
1:34.3	then going undercover as a neo-nazi. He says, I don't want anyone to ever say that I don't
1:39.7	belong where I am. That's a very easy thing for people to say when you fall into something very
1:44.3	young, something so huge and you are wildly lucky to have ever got it in the first place.
1:49.3	I want to earn my right to be doing these jobs. Daniel Radcliffe welcomed it as a island discs.
1:54.5	Thank you very much. Thank you for having me. So that idea of earning the luck that you've
1:58.4	been given is important to you. Why? Yeah, because I have been insanely lucky and I think probably
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