2025-09-24
4 分钟Hello, it's me, Lauren Laverne, and this is Desert Island Discs Postcards,
your hand-picked selection of unforgettable moments from some of our favourite castaways.
Today's castaway is the campaigner Malala Yousafzai, who I spoke to in 2021.
It was so inspiring to talk to Malala about why equal access to education for girls matters so much to her and her family.
I am lucky that I have an amazing feminist father and I say that he was a feminist before he even knew the word feminist.
He was not just preaching about the quality of women, he was actually doing it.
He ensured that I get my education, that I get treated the same way as my brothers get treated.
And there were so many other young girls in Swatvalli who wanted to speak out and who were speaking out initially.
But their brothers and their fathers stopped them from speaking out.
And what's different in my story is that my father did not stop me.
It's as simple as that.
What made him different, do you think?
My father always shares this story that he had five sisters and there were two brothers.
And he noticed the discrimination with his own two eyes when his parents would serve food to all the children.
The boys will get the bigger piece of meat than the girls.
The girls, you know, would not be prioritized.
My grandfather, he educated both the boys, but he did not send the girls to school.
So for my father, you know, the question was like,
why is it that just because he's a boy, he's getting all these privileges?
And he decided that, you know, when he will have his own daughters or daughter,