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My name's Katie Lecky and I'm an assistant commissioner for on demand music on BBC Sounds.

The BBC has an incredible musical heritage and culture and as a music lover, I love being part of that.

With music on sounds, we offer collections and mixes for everything, from workouts to

helping you nod off, boogie in your kitchen, or even just a moment of calm. And they're all

put together by people who know their stuff. So if you want some expertly curated music in your life,

check out BBC Sounds. Hello, I'm Krista Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs Archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 2005, and the presenter was Sue Lawley.

Music was Sue Lawley.

My castaway this week is a politician and a journalist.

Prone to getting into scrapes, a word that suits his rather Woodhousian image. He's one of the best known Tory MPs in the House of Commons.

As editor of the weekly magazine The Spectator, he's taken it to the highest circulation in its history,

while losing his job on the opposition front bench for misleading the leadership about his

affair with one of his colleagues.

His articles can cause dismay too. He was severely criticised for a leader,

accusing the people of Liverpool of wallowing in sentimentality over the murder of Ken Bigley in Iraq.

But his self-deprecating humour and his often shambolic appearance conceal a cleverness and a self-confidence

that for all his mishaps might yet take him further in politics, which appears to be his

ambition. He freely admits to being, and I quote, propelled by an eager mania, a desire to go on,

get on, have a go. He is Boris Johnson. So if you were forced Boris,

you're laughing at this quote. You did say it, actually. I suppose I must have done.

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