Carol Vorderman

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

She's best known for starring in Countdown, one of Britain's longest-running television game shows. But Carol Vorderman has managed to fit twice as much into her life as most of us. She speaks to James about her chaotic but loving upbringing, culture shock at Cambridge and new life as 'the country's most vociferous anti-corruption crusader'.

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0:00.0	Hi, here's your VIP invitation to the Flame Festival, travel by luxury jet to party on a tropical island,
0:06.9	with A-list musical performances and Hollywood stars, acting as your own personal masseuses while you enjoy Unbroken Sunshine.
0:17.5	Some things are too good to be true. The spec savers too good deal isn't.
0:22.3	Get two pairs of designer glasses for £100.
0:25.2	Include single-vision lenses to the same prescription.
0:27.6	Conditions apply. Ask in store for details.
0:32.1	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
0:55.1	Yeah. Global Player Original Podcast Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project designed exclusively to let me spend more time than I'd ever go on the radio with interesting people.
0:56.7	Am I an interesting person?
0:58.2	We're about to find out.
0:59.2	Oh, I said.
1:00.8	No pressure, order to.
1:01.6	I mean, dare I suggest that this stage in 2023, for many people listening to this, you are
1:08.6	even more interesting than you were at this stage in 2022.
1:13.4	This is what was prompted the Times to call you the country's most vociferous anti-corruption crusader.
1:18.3	We'll get on to that, but I should say thank you, because I know everyone's keen to talk to you at the moment.
1:22.6	Well, yes, but I'm a big fan and obviously very conscious that LBC is doing so well.
1:30.1	Congratulations on that because I know how hard it is to build a station
1:34.0	and then to surpass something on the BBC.
1:37.2	Bigger ratings than Radio 5.
1:39.1	So well done.
1:39.8	Thank you very much.
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