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,