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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.

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The program was originally broadcast in 2007.

Music My castaway this week is Greg Dyke, a top flight TV executive known for being instinctual, populist and balshy. His appointment as BBC

Director General at the end of the 90s was an uncharacteristically bold move for the corporation,

and an extraordinary moment for a man who, as a youngster, was once marked out by his teachers

as the boy least likely to succeed. However, his departure four years later was a great deal more

spectacular. The passion and impulsiveness that served him so well at LWT and TV AM proved his undoing

at the BBC when a bitter row erupted with Downing Street over the corporation's coverage of the

Iraq War. Amid considerable mud-slinging ill-temper and tragedy,

he was forced to resign, prompting a huge display of loyalty from his staff,

as thousands gathered on the steps of the corporation to wish him a tearful goodbye.

One of them asked you memorably, Greg Dyke, how did a short, bold man with a speech impediment have such an impact?

What do you think the short answer is to that?

Well, we spent, in the four years I was at the BBC, we had one aim, and that was to make the people who worked here feel valued.

If you can make them feel valued, then you can do great things in an organisation.

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