You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit teach at loop.co.uk.uk. The I'm going to go. Hello and this special series called Marooned with

my music. My cast away today is my brother James Thompson. Since being born in

the mid-1970s in the of England, it's hard to say really what James

has been doing for the past 39 years of his existence on Earth.

Nevertheless, he is a man of taste, a man of music, and a man of experience.

In the 1990s he studied a combined degree in English and design at a university in Cambridge before becoming something of an expert in wine tasting, wine selling and indeed wine drinking.

Quietly entrepreneurial, James set up a successful t-shirt company in the late 1990s and now works as a freelance

designer and artist, with perhaps the pinnacle of his career so far being the logo he designed for Luke's English podcast.

I'm joking of course James has contributed design work for various companies and

organizations over the years and as well as being an artist a designer a wine enjoyer a t-shirt maker and

skateboarder James has always been a keen lover of music both as a drummer and producer and as a collector of vinyl records and I

imagine that having to choose eight records to take to his Desert Island

has been something of a challenge for him. So let's find out.

So hello James welcome to this program which is called Marooned with my music. Are you

aware of the concept of the show? Yep, it's similar to very popular Radio 4 program isn't that?

That's right.

It's basically the same thing with a few slight changes.

And any similarities are complete coincidence.

That's right the changes really have been made in order to avoid any potential copyright or legal issues

which we've just completely voided by discussing what it was stopped from.

Yeah, okay well anyway welcome to Marooned with my music, James.

Hmm. Have you found it difficult to choose eight songs, eight of your favorite pieces of music which will accompany you onto this remote island for the rest of your life?

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