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🗓️ 16 February 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Lauren LeVern and this is the Deser 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 |
0:13.2 | with them if they were cast away to a desert island. |
0:16.4 | This is an extended version of the original Radio 4 broadcast and for right reasons the |
0:21.6 | music is shorter than the original broadcast. |
0:24.5 | I hope you enjoy listening. |
0:30.0 | Music Music |
0:46.0 | My cast away this week is Ian Wright. |
0:48.7 | As a professional footballer he was a late starter. |
0:51.7 | When he signed with Crystal Palace initially for just three months he was 21 and a Sunday |
0:56.1 | league player, working as a labourer to support his young family. |
0:59.8 | It was the generosity of his foreman who said his job would be waiting for him if football |
1:03.8 | didn't work out that persuaded him to take the deal. |
1:07.0 | Thank goodness he did. |
1:08.2 | He would go on to become world class. |
1:10.2 | One of the greatest strikers of his generation, the second highest scorer of all time at |
1:14.6 | Arsenal and to earn 33 caps for England. |
1:18.2 | Enthusiasm, exuberance and flair were his defining characteristics on the pitch, a superstar |
1:23.4 | player whose enormous skill was matched by his love of the game. |
1:27.3 | Now a successful pundit he remains as passionate and opinionated as ever. |
1:32.3 | He says as time goes by people realise you're an honest bloke who'll stand in your corner. |
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