Ade Adepitan on his first day at school

阿德·阿德皮坦在学校的第一天

Desert Island Discs

2025-09-30

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Before his career in broadcasting, Ade was an international wheelchair basketball player who won a gold medal at the 2005 Paralympic World Cup. He spoke to Kirsty about a fashion faux pas he made on his first day at school. You can listen to the full episode on BBC Sounds.
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  • 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 Paralympian and TV presenter Adéa Depitane.

  • In 2012, he told Kirsty Young about a fashion faux pas from his first day at school.

  • Oh, God.

  • Give me everything on the picture.

  • Do you know what?

  • Well, the day before my first day of school, my mum,

  • who's... proper flamboyant, she likes to dress quite wild and out there.

  • She took me to Petticoat Lane Market in the East London and she decided to buy me a pink checkered suit with a bow tie.

  • And also, I can't remember what those shirts are called, it was a shirt with like a frilly feeling.

  • A dress shirt, sort of Tom Jones' name.

  • Yeah, and this is what I was going to wear to my school, Creedland School, Upton Park.

  • Proper East London school.

  • What was she thinking?

  • Exactly.

  • I mean,

  • I think maybe it was a good ploy buyer

  • because it took my mind off my physical disability and put my mind on my fashion disability.

  • Now, here's the thing, because your other USP, of course,