Richard Osman on managing his eating disorder
Desert Island Discs

Richard Osman on managing his eating disorder

B1IntermediateOctober 23, 20263 min
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The writer and broadcaster Richard Osman was cast away by Lauren Laverne. He is the author of the Thursday Murder Club series and has presented popular BBC shows including Pointless and Richard Osman's House of Games. When he appeared on Desert Island Discs in 2021, he revealed that at a time when his career was going well, he was struggling with an eating disorder. It's something he continues to manage day by day, but says he no longer feels any shame about. You can listen to the full episode on BBC Sounds.

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Hello, I'm Lauren Laverne and this is Desert Island Discs Postcards, a collection of funny and heartwarming moments from some of our many castaways. We end this series of Desert Island Discs Postcards with a clip from Richard Osman's programme. When I interviewed the writer and broadcaster in 2021, he spoke about dealing with difficult

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personal issues at a time when his work life was going swimmingly. Well, I think it is that thing of, you know, my career was going well, I was successful so I had all the things that I had, you know, kids, all the things that I thought were the thing that I needed or the thing that was going to make everything okay.

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And none of them did. And you know, getting older and older and just working out that I was slightly directionless And I had various addictive behaviours as well. And as soon as you have an addictive behaviour,

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