You're about to listen to a BBC podcast, but this is about something else you might enjoy.

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 composer. This Christmas, his music is being heard in concerts and churches all over the world. He's the most celebrated and commercially successful composer of carols alive today.

Inspired and encouraged by his school education, he became director of music at Clare College, Cambridge, and then with a string of winning commissions already behind him moved into full-time composition. These days, he runs his own record label and directs his own

choir, the Cambridge singers, but most of all, he composes, traditional, attractive music firmly established

at the centre of Christian worship wherever it's practiced.

I take sounds in the air and use them, he says.

I write music that people will enjoy singing.

I'm not ashamed of that.

He is John Rutter.

John, that the shepherd's pipe, Carol, has to be your most popular carol.

I think it's your signature tune, really.

Wasn't it one of the first you ever wrote? It was. I think the year was 1966 and the occasion was a concert in Claire College

where there was a little gap at the end and I thought I need just a bit more music to pad out the

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