Christian O'Connell

Published: July 24, 2021, 1:18 p.m.

b"Nikki Bedi and Shaun Keaveny are joined by Christian O\\u2019Connell, presenter of the Breakfast Show on Gold FM in Melbourne, Australia. He tells us why he left his number one show on Absolute Radio, with three million listeners, to move to the other side of the world and take on the toughest radio market there is.\\n\\nListener Lisa Jones on the World War Two dog tag she found in her garden and what she discovered when she went in search of the owner. \\n\\nPaula Craig was a detective in the Metropolitan Police, a marathon runner and triathlete when she was knocked off her bike and paralysed. She tells us how she was determined to live life to the full, pushing marathons and how she is about to swim in a Channel Relay. \\n\\nNovelist and screenwriter Deborah Moggach shares her Inheritance Tracks. She's chosen Ella Fitzgerald, Thanks for the Memory and Dory Previn, The Lady with the Braid.\\n\\nComedian Daliso Chaponda shot to fame on Britain\\u2019s Got Talent\\u202fwhere he reached final by getting the Golden Buzzer. Since then, he\\u2019s performed at the Royal Variety Performance, has his own series on Radio 4, Citizen of Nowhere and is about to embark on a UK tour with Apocalypse Not Now. \\n \\nProducer: Annette Wells"