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Tom Hanks on loneliness

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:05:35
Publish Date: 2025-09-26 05:00:00
Description:

The Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks was cast away by Kirsty Young in 2016.

Tom’s parents split up when he was five, and he went to live with his father. By the age of 10 he'd lived in 10 different houses in five different cities.Tom spoke to Kirsty about his complicated childhood, his parents’ divorce and how he managed his overwhelming feelings of loneliness.

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