Gabby Logan, broadcaster

Desert Island Discs

BBC

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4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Gabby Logan presents a range of popular BBC sports programmes and hosts high-profile sporting events including the Olympics, Premiership football and the World Cup. Gabby was born in Leeds and her father Terry Yorath is a former footballer and manager who played for Leeds United and for the Welsh national team. As a young girl she was a rhythmic gymnast and represented Wales in the Commonwealth Games in 1990. She retired from the sport the following year after struggling with severe back pain. In 1996 she joined Sky Sports as a presenter, moving to ITV two years later where she became one of the first female sports anchors to break into terrestrial television and the first woman to host the channel’s football coverage. Gabby joined the BBC in 2007 where she has presented Final Score, Inside Sport and Match of the Day. She also co-presents the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards show. In 2021 Gabby was awarded an MBE for services to sports broadcasting and the promotion of women in sport. Gabby is married to the former rugby union player Kenny Logan and they have two children. DISC ONE: Abide With Me by Emeli Sandé DISC TWO: Ain't No Mountain High Enough by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell DISC THREE: Summertime by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong DISC FOUR: Going Home: Theme Of The Local Hero (Live at Hammersmith Odeon, 1983) by Dire Straits DISC FIVE: Daniel by Elton John DISC SIX: Belter by Gerry Cinnamon DISC SEVEN: As by George Michael & Mary J. Blige DISC EIGHT: You Got the Love by The Source, featuring Candi Staton BOOK CHOICE: Every Ruddy Word by Alan Partridge LUXURY ITEM: A piano CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: You Got the Love by The Source, featuring Candi Staton Presenter Lauren Laverne Producer Paula McGinley

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.9	Hello, I'm Lauren LeVern and this is the Deser Island Disks Podcast.
0:08.6	Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take with them
0:13.9	if they were cast away to a desert island.
0:16.5	And for right reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast.
0:21.2	I hope you enjoy listening.
0:44.7	My cast away this week is the broadcasted Gabby Logan.
0:47.8	For the past 20 years, she's brought TV audiences closer to some of the most memorable
0:52.1	sporting moments of our times. She was one of the first female sports anchors to break into
0:56.6	terrestrial television when she joined ITV in 1998, becoming the first woman to anchor the channel's
1:02.6	football coverage. Today, she is a linchpin of the BBC's sports presenting team
1:07.5	and has hosted major events including the Olympics, Premiership Football, the London Marathon
1:12.6	and the Soccer World Cup. When the Lionesses brought football home at the Euros in 2022,
1:18.4	her heartfelt closing piece to camera, calling for more support for the women's game,
1:22.9	was testament to her ability to look beyond the result of a match to find its meaning.
1:27.7	Her own story is the perfect example of just how meaningful sport can be and how it can shape
1:33.1	a life. Her father is the lead and Welsh international footballer Terry Yorath and she became a
1:38.5	gymnast representing Wales in the Commonwealth Games. Her impulse to make it as a broadcaster
1:43.9	was driven by the tragic death of her brother Daniel when there were teenagers. He was a talented
1:48.8	footballer himself and on the day of his funeral she promised him that she would not waste a moment.
1:54.4	She says, Sport has always been at the centre of my life. It's given me life lessons,
1:59.5	introduced me to spectacular people and brought me complete and utter joy, as well as frustration
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