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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 comedian, actor and writer Rob Delaney.
He's best known for the Channel Four series catastrophe, which he co wrote and co starred in alongside Sharon Hogan, and its dark, witty and close to the bone portrayal of family life won the pair a BAFTA and a Royal Television Society award for comedy writing.
The success of the show brought him from Los Angeles to London, where he and his wife settled with their young family.
Then, in 2018, they experienced a terrible personal the death of their two and a half year old son, Henry, from a brain tumour.
It was in the throes of his unimaginable grief that he wrote his best selling book, a heart that works.
It was a tribute to his son, his family and the NHS.
His acting career continues with Hollywood blockbusters like Deadpool and Mission Impossible, but so does his most important role as an advocate for the health service and for bereaved families.
He says, optimism is good.
I suffer from it congenitally.
But let's not be ridiculous.
The world is still just a horrible toilet.
Rob Delaney, welcome to Desert island Discs.
Thank you.
I'm so excited to be here.
Thank you very much.