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Hello, I'm Kristi Young.

Welcome to Desert Island Discs, where every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, the book and the luxury item

that they'd want to take with them if they were cast away on a desert island.

For rights reasons, the music on these podcast versions is shorter than in the original broadcast.

You can find over 2,000 more editions to listen to and download on the Desert Island Discs website.

Hello and thanks for joining me.

As some of you may remember, 2017 was a special year for Desert Island Discs.

We celebrated 75 years of casting guests away.

To that tiny deserted island with just a few treasured recordings, three books and a luxury to keep them company.

Well, today we're going to mark the end of such a special milestone by hand picking a little festive selection box of a

new album.

From some of the 3,000 guests who have been cast away over the past three quarters of a century.

Among the voices you will hear Sir David Attenborough, Dame Zaha Hadid, Jacqueline DePray, Louis Armstrong and Dame Judy Dench.

And I'll be sharing just a few of my personal favourites.

I'll be sharing a few of my personal favourites with you.

One of those was meeting 97-year-old Eric Winkelbrown.

Born in 1919, he was one of the very few recent castaways who was old enough to remember our program's very first broadcast.

As a pilot, he held the world record for the most flight deck landings, 2407.

And he held that record for 65 years.

An absolute delight to meet and interview, he had a real twinkle in his eye.

When I asked him to introduce his sixth disc, Andy Williams, singing Call Me Irresponsible.

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