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 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 and I was successful.
So I had all the things that I, 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.
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 behaviors as well.
And, you know, as soon as you have an addictive behavior,
you know that something's up because you know you're hiding something or controlling something.
What was happening?
Well, my addictive behavior has always been food.
It has been since I was incredibly young.
And it's not seen as, it doesn't have any of the sort of doomed glamour.
Of drugs or alcohol or anything like that.
But if an alcoholic came to my house, they would be shocked to see that there are bottles of gin,
bottles of wine completely untouched because an alcoholic couldn't have that in their house.