Dustin Hoffman on his father

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

The actor Dustin Hoffman was cast away by Kirsty Young in 2012.

He has been a leading man in Hollywood for over fifty years. His career includes movies such as The Graduate, All The President's Men, Kramer v Kramer, Tootsie and Rain Man.

He spoke to Kirsty about his relationship with his father.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:07.3	Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron.
0:10.5	Evil genius.
0:11.6	He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it.
0:15.5	That's like hiding at your own funeral.
0:17.1	Yeah, a bit great gig.
0:18.6	I'm Russell Kane.
0:19.6	Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history
0:22.3	are more evil or genius.
0:24.1	Becoming that rich, I'd say that
0:25.4	is some level of genius.
0:26.4	It also helps it.
0:27.4	It's a long time ago, right?
0:29.4	It's like the podcast version
0:30.6	of telling your kids
0:31.5	the ice cream van plays music
0:33.0	when it's out of ice cream.
0:34.9	Listen to Evil Genius on BBC Sounds.
0:50.9	Yeah. is out of ice cream. Listen to Evil Genius on BBC Sounds. Hello, I'm Lauren Levern, and this is Desert Island Discs postcards.
0:55.5	What's this? I hear you cry? Well, each year we take a short break. So we thought this
1:00.4	would be the perfect time to revisit some of the thousands of people we've already cast away.
1:05.6	But where to start? Well, this is where the postcards will help. We'll feature funny,
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