Rob Brydon

Desert Island Discs: Archive 2005-2010

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Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 May 2010

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The comedian and actor Rob Brydon joins Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs.

Growing up in Port Talbot, South Wales, he discovered performing when he was a teenager and says he came alive when he was on stage: so much so that he left school with only a couple of O Levels. For years, he made a comfortable but unfulfilling living recording voice-overs and working on a television shopping channel. He always dreamed of working in comedy, though, and eventually it was 'Marion and Geoff' and then 'Gavin and Stacey' that made him a household name.

Record: Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen Book: Collected works of Dylan Thomas Luxury: A guitar.

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0:30.4	Hello, I'm Kirsty Young. Thank you for downloading this podcast of Desert Island Discs from BBC Radio 4.
0:36.7	For rights reasons, the music choices are shorter than in the radio broadcast.
0:41.2	For more information about the programme, please visit BBC.co.com.ukes slash Radio 4.
0:47.6	Music My castaway this week is the comedian and actor Rob Bryden.
1:09.3	A decade ago, he was enjoying a lucrative but unfulfilling
1:12.6	career as a voiceover artist. His ringing tones espousing the charms of pot noodle, toilet duck and
1:18.5	tango, among many, many other products. But after what he admits was a rather wiggly road,
1:24.4	it was first Marion and Jeff and then Gavin and Stacey that made him a household
1:28.7	name. It seems his speciality in a cynical age, bringing to life characters without guile or
1:34.9	cunning, eternal optimists who think the best of everyone around them. It may just be an act, of course,
1:41.4	and I don't know how near the truth we'll get today. I usually don't give a whole lot of way in interviews, he says.
1:46.9	I could go into all sorts of things, but I don't want the drama. I avoid it.
1:51.7	For someone who wants to avoid drama then, Rob Brighton, I am astonished to learn that the birth of your last child started with you playing golf with Ronnie Corbett.
2:00.5	In the end of the day, you were catching Tom in your arms in the sitting room.
2:04.7	Yeah, that's true.
2:07.8	See, he came nine days early.
2:09.8	It was my wife's first child, my fourth.
2:13.6	And I assumed the first child, he'd be late.
2:16.6	So I was very, very very relaxed you know thinking well
2:19.7	he's no way he's going to be early so I'd arranged this day and off I went and uh Ronnie and I were
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