Malala on campaigning for equal access to education
Desert Island Discs
BBC
4.3 • 14.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
The activist Malala Yousafzai was cast away by Lauren Laverne in 2021.
Malala was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize when she was 17, becoming the youngest winner in its history. She spoke to Lauren about why equal access to education for girls matters so much to her and her family.
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| 0:53.7 | Hello, it's me, Lauren Levern, and this is Desert Island Discs Postcards, |
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| 1:04.4 | Today's castaway is the campaigner Malala Yusufzai, who I spoke to in 2021. |
| 1:09.6 | It was so inspiring to talk to Malala about why equal access to education for girls matters so much to her and her family. |
| 1:12.7 | I am lucky that I have an amazing feminist father and I say that he was a feminist before he |
| 1:19.5 | even knew the word feminist. He was not just preaching about the quality of women. He was actually |
| 1:25.2 | doing it. He ensured that I get my education, that I get |
| 1:29.5 | treated the same way as my brothers get treated. And there were so many other young girls in |
| 1:35.2 | Swat Valley who wanted to speak out and who were speaking out initially. But their brothers and |
| 1:41.2 | their fathers stopped them from speaking out. And what's different in my story is that my father did not stop me. |
| 1:47.8 | It's as simple as that. |
| 1:49.0 | What made him different, do you think? |
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