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Richard Park

Richard Park

Former ice hockey player

Jun 29, 2026

4:22
Do you think that's been a part of what's enabled you to make these really complicated decisions? massive production i
4:28
mean potentially i think it's reversing the stigma of dyslexia so i'm dyslexic and so my dyslexia gives me the superpower that i can see order i can go that doesn't work i can be in a gallery someone can change the order and before you've changed the order i know it's wrong because my brain is logical i can go that doesn't work i can't spell for toffee Yeah, if I send an email to a commissioner, I have to get Katie, my producer, to check that it makes sense before I send it.
4:57
But put me in front of a running order, put me in front of an order, put me in front of huge charts where you're making masses of programs.
5:04
My brain can absolutely see it all.
5:07
And it's a bit like...
5:09
It's a bit like Jonah Hill in Moneyball.
5:12
I can see the patterns go.

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26:19
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Caz Graham
Caz GrahamCORRESPONDENT
13:31
And on a baking hot day like today, we're at the right place for these cows because this is one of your, your troughs here?
13:38
It is.
13:39
This is one of our water troughs that we have in every field, every paddock.
13:43
We can hear the water running in there.
13:46
[water runs] And, and the trough is full, so that's good.
13:49
That's what we like to see.
13:50
So what we've got here is a trough with a special valve on.
Caz Graham
Caz GrahamCORRESPONDENT
14:57
And you actively keep these hedges like this so that they can provide shade?
43:29
'Cause i- in a way, it- it- it's odd, isn't it, that radio started sort of decades before that, but hadn't really evolved very much until the advent of pirate radio.
43:40
Oh, well, your political side bounces in here when the famous John Stonehouse, who became famous for something (laughs) completely different...
43:47
Uh, I was on holiday in Majorca with a friend, and he dashed back with a copy of The Telegraph, and the headline was, "Pirate radios to close.
43:53
Labour government closes it down.
43:55
Too much, um, illegal activity." I mean, whether that was true or not, I don't know.
43:59
Most of the businessmen who ran it, um, had pretty good reputations and came from, from pretty solid backgrounds.
44:05
But that was the end of pirate radio.
45:10
(laughs)

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