BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

Lauren LeVernier, we're taking our Easter break so until we're back on air we're showcasing

a few programs from our archive as usual the music's been shortened for rights reasons.

This week's guest is the broadcaster Murray Walker.

He was cast away by Kirste Young in 2014.

My cast away this week is the broadcaster Murray Walker.

His commentating career began in 1948 and he finally hung up the lip mic at the end of

2001.

His trousers on fire style of delivery brought excitement, emotion and fanatical obsession

to Formula One.

For motor racing fans he was motor sport.

A petrol head before the term had even been coined it was his father, one of the top motorbike

racing champs of his day who ignited his son's lifelong love of big noisy engines.

He's talked British fans through so many of the sport's greatest victories, Damon Hill

crossing the finish line to win the world title brought an audible lump to his throat.

But also inevitably great tragedies too, his live commentary on Erton Senors fatal crash

in 1994 must surely have been his most professionally demanding.

He says, I have always believed that Formula One with its highs and lows is the ultimate

distillation of life.

So Murray Walker if you would begin then by just expanding on that in what way do you think

does Formula One represent everything we have to deal with in the real world?

Everybody in Formula One coasty doesn't matter whether they're the trucky who is bringing

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