2025-01-05
50 分钟BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts Hello, I'm Lauren Laverne and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast.
Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight 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.
My castaway this week is the broadcaster and former cricketer Ebony Rainford Brent.
She's a boundary breaker, the first black woman to play for England and one of the first women to summarize on men's international matches.
Alongside her former playing colleague, Isha Gooa, her sporting career was illustrious.
She was part of the England team that won the 2009 Women's Cricket World cup in Australia.
They consolidated their dominance of the women's game three months later by clinching the Women's World Twenty20, the NatWest One Day Series and retaining the women's Ashes.
In 2020, she gave an impassioned speech about her experiences of racism for a film that was broadcast in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement.
That same year, she founded the African Caribbean engagement charity Ace with her club, Surrey County.
Ace is dedicated to improving diversity in the sport that changed her life.
She was born in South London and her childhood was touched by tragedy.
She lost her eldest brother when she was just five.
But it was also shaped by the dedication of a mother who was determined that her daughter would achieve her dreams and who taught her to believe in herself.
She says, when you're feeling hesitant, flex that muscle to say, okay, I'm not feeling confident right now, but I'm going to put myself forward, or give that a try anyway.
You'll be amazed by what you can achieve.
Ebony Rainford Brent, welcome to Desert Island Discs.
Hello.
Thank you.