Hello, I'm Kirstie 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 2001, and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My castaway this week is a radio and television presenter. You'd have to be something of a

hermit to have missed him. Perhaps you grew up with him on the cult Saturday morning kids

show Tiswas, that was 25 years ago, or stayed up late to watch him on its adult version

OTT. Maybe you hear him bringing the morning to life on capital radio but most

likely you've watched him teasing those anxious hopefals into answering the question on what

must be the Western World's most successful TV game show who wants to be a millionaire.

Sharp but always charming, clever but ever a natural populist, he clearly possesses the

right mixture to keep him very much on top in a cutthroat business. He is

Chris Tarrant. It is, Chris, it was nice and complimentary,

well it was extraordinary.

I was looking worth it, what a very nice man,

I was coming on, I was looking for him.

But it is a brilliant format, millionaire.

Who really invented it?

What are its origin?

It came from...

Made a mind called David Briggs was my producer on the Capital Breakfast Show for years and years and years.

And he and I did loads of sort of radio big money competitions.

And we did a thing called Double Or quits and literally you started at a

pound and it went up and up and up I do remember one morning it went up to 12,000

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