Shaun Keaveny: "I have self-doubt and massive amounts of imposter syndrome"

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Shaun Keaveny is one of the UKs most beloved broadcasters, having spent 11 years presenting one of the countries biggest music breakfast radio shows.

His journey began upon leaving college, where he knew he wanted to work in a creative industry with a passion for writing skits, listening to the radio and playing music.

Shaun soon got his first break at XFM London, presenting overnights to a miniscule audience where he could flex his creative flair before moving with the times and fronting a digital only breakfast show at the newly form 6 Music.

In this episode James sits down to explore Shaun's childhood and his close bond he has with his family, his late diagnosis of ADD, how Terry Wogan took him under his wing and how leaving the BBC had a heavy impact on him.

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0:32.1	This is a global player original podcast.
0:44.4	Thank you. Global Player Original Podcast. Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project conceived to let me spend more time with interesting people than I would ever get on the radio.
0:51.9	Although this week's guests, I don't know how many people would fall into this category, Sean Kevney, but you've possibly would ever get on the radio, although this week's guests, I don't
0:54.4	know how many people would fall into this category, Sean Kevney, but you've possibly spent
0:57.9	more time on the radio than I have. Probably spent more time on the radio than I have at
1:01.9	home. That also counts. That also counts. Was it always the plan? I mean, when does one
1:07.5	develop a desire to be on the radio? When does one develop an audiophilia?
1:13.8	Yes.
1:14.7	Well, this is an interesting question
1:17.7	because it does make me stretch my memory back now.
1:23.4	All what I do actually remember is it was, I think, 1980, and me and our arms got a Ferguson tape recorder with a stereo FM and AM radio on it.
1:36.3	So it was all there, wasn't it?
1:37.7	My future was writ, you know.
1:39.5	And there was a condenser mic, and you could record with it.
1:42.7	So we used to ask about with that.
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