Hi, it's Lauren Laverne and this is Desert Island Discs Postcards, a selection
of some of our most memorable moments from the thousands of people we've cast away to our imaginary desert island.
Today's postcard comes to you from the heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua.
He made his comeback a couple of months ago after surviving a car crash which killed two of his friends last year.
When I interviewed him in 2024, he credited his mother for bringing him up alone following his parents' divorce.
The cycle of life, right, will mean one day my mum won't be here with me.
And it hurts already to think that because she's done so well to raise someone like me.
Tough, hard-headed.
Hard working son and I know how tough it must have been for her you know she was a single
mum at a certain stage in her life And now as a dad,
I really applaud her for the effort she put in raising me and my sister.
It's not easy being a social worker as well, a lot of pressure.
She's worked hard, taking me to school in the morning.
I never used to like school as well.
So getting me to school was also a chore as well.
It wasn't easy.
Like, yeah, school, I'm up, let's go.
I was like, school?
Every step of the way.
Yeah, every step of the way.