Hello, I'm Lauren Laverne and this is Desert Island Discs postcards.
What's this?
I hear you cry.
Well, each year we take a short break.
So we thought this would be the perfect time to revisit some of the thousands of people we've already cast away.
But where to start?
Well, this is where the postcards will help.
We'll feature funny, moving and memorable moments every weekday.
Let's start the week with the actor Dustin Hoffman.
He spoke to Kirsty Young in 2012 about his life, his career and his relationship with his father.
My father was a very serious young man who had I guess what turned out to be,
you know, delusions of grandeur or whatever, because he came to LA from Chicago with no money,
and I think $50, which was probably a lot of money during the Depression,
with my older brother, my mother, and her mother, and I wasn't born yet.
I have a photograph of him helping to build one of the freeways in Los Angeles with his shirt off and holding a shovel with a bunch of other guys,
but somehow he was able...
He had a lot of drive to get himself to Columbia Pictures before I was born and he got a job as an assistant prop man and then a prop man and an assistant set decorator and a set decorator and then he was fired.
For reasons I've never learned.
He wanted to be a director.
This was all told to me much later.