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Desert Island Discs Revisited: Comic Castaways 2: Jo Brand

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Comic Castaways 2

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From Kate Bush to Talking Heads. Comedian Jo Brand makes her castaway choices.

From Kate Bush to Talking Heads. Comedian Jo Brand shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From March 2007.

From Kate Bush to Talking Heads. 

Stand-up comedian Jo Brand shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young. 

From the word go, Jo always anticipated she’d be heckled about her weight and appearance. While most people would run a mile at the thought of standing in front of a rowdy, aggressive and largely drunk audience, she says that the worst that can happen is humiliation - and Jo adds that as a woman, she was already equipped to deal with this, because people felt free to comment disparagingly on her appearance in everyday life.

Jo’s first career was as a psychiatric nurse - and for several years she would spend the day working in a psychiatric unit before appearing at a comedy club in the evening. Both careers demand an ability to be calm in extreme situations and to display a confidence that is often not felt. 

Her extreme act meant that for many years, Jo was labelled a man-hating feminist - but she confounded critics by getting married and having two children.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2007.

Desert Island Discs Revisited: Comic Castaways 2

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