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Hello, I'm Lauren Laverne and this is the Desert Island Disks podcast.

Every week I ask my guest to choose the 8 tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take with them if they

were cast away to a desert island. And for rights reasons the music is shorter than

the original broadcast. I hope you enjoy listening. Oh, My cast away this week is the boxer Anthony Joshua. He's already earned his place in the history books as the first British heavyweight to win both Olympic gold and a world title.

In fact, he's a two-time world heavyweight unified champion and is currently on a winning streak

in pursuit of a third.

He took up boxing at the age of 18, but he was already a fighter.

Banned from the centre of his hometown of Watford for getting into a brawl,

he moved to London and followed his cousin to the gym,

where sport gave him the framework to turn his life around.

Within five years he was an Olympic champion winning gold at London 2012 before turning

pro. Since then he's made it his mission to use his head as well as his fists.

He's a master fortune that according to feverish press speculation has made him one of the richest athletes in British history,

though he makes almost as many headlines for his

relatively frugal lifestyle and philanthropy as he does for his wealth. He says,

I always think my role is to inspire people. I know for a fact there will be a kid somewhere who

looks at me and thinks I can do that and will find their way to a gym and end up doing more

than I have done. Anthony Joshua welcome to Desert Island Disks. Thank you for having me today.

That's a pleasure. So let's start with that kid then who finds their way into a gym and it changes their life because that's

what happened to you. But it's interesting that it took a

while because you'd always been sporty you were great at football you around the

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