Kirsty Young
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Can you be successful and stay grounded? After twelve years presenting radio's biggest interview show, Desert Island Discs, there are few people better placed to understand than Kirsty Young.
From Nobel-winning scientists to Hollywood royalty (and actual royalty), Fearne talks to Kirsty about what makes them tick - and what words of wisdom they've shared with her over the years.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Happy Place. I'm Fern Cotton and right now it's actually |
| 0:06.8 | six in the morning and I am in a radio to studio and it's still dark outside |
| 0:11.4 | this week I'm covering for Chris Evans on the Breakfast Show having a lot of |
| 0:15.4 | fun so I thought I'd quickly record this while some at it. Now so far in this |
| 0:20.6 | series we've spoken to people who are trying to better themselves one day at a |
| 0:25.6 | time much like myself but today we're going to hear from someone who meets |
| 0:30.2 | exceptional people every day that's right it's the presenter of Desert Island |
| 0:35.5 | Discs the magnificent Kirsty Young. When a friend a good true friend who knows |
| 0:41.4 | you who you trust tells you something really take time to listen to it because |
| 0:45.9 | the chances are it will be incredibly good advice. |
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| 0:55.3 | but I'm sorry we can't help you get this song out of your head. |
| 0:59.1 | Now all of Mondays Mondays are working for me I can be the person that I want to be |
| 1:09.6 | now that I'm certain my Mondays are working for me. |
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