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Hello, I'm Laura Lerner. Hello, I'm Laura Luverne, and this is Desert Island Disc's postcards, where we share a selection of some of our favourite moments from some of our most memorable castaways.

This postcard comes from the actor Tom Hanks, who spoke to Kirsty Young.

Tom had already prepared for life on a desert island when he starred in the film Castaway.

He told Kirsty about his complicated childhood, his parents' divorce, and his overwhelming feelings of loneliness.

Then I started asking myself a whole different set of questions.

And what were?

Those questions were, how do I find the vocabulary for what's rattling around inside my head?

Not long after this, I started going to the American Conservatory Theatre by myself to see plays that I had no idea even existed.

And you say what was rattling around inside your head?

Are you able to articulate those feelings?

Having had the childhood you'd had by 13, 14, 15, what was rattling around inside?

What have you done to me?

I can only apologize.

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