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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. Thank you for downloading this podcast of Desert Island Discs from BBC Radio 4.

For rights reasons, the music choices are shorter than in the radio broadcast.

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My castaway this week is Cassie, an actor, writer and director.

She has the rare talent of winning over critics, whilst also appealing to the masses.

She bagged the best actress award at Cannes for her portrayal of the wife of a violent alcoholic in Gary Oldman's film Neil by Mouth,

and worked alongside Harry Enfield to create Kevin and Perry and Wayne and Winetta Slob.

Her speciality, it seems, is bringing characters to our attention who rarely have the spotlight shone upon them.

She has a lack of vanity that is rare. Of her younger self, she says, I had this laddish way about me with my deep voice and telling jokes all the time. I was Berkey, the little

fella in a skirt. It's a description that makes her sound unfeminine, but that's a simplification.

She shows, according to Stephen Fry, that it is possible to be a woman without going all mincy and weird.

Do you know that he's had that, back?

No.

Do you like that?

Well, Stephen Fry's saying my name is quite nice.

He said that he was on Room 101 and he said there should be a special room that we put all the nice things in and that you should go in it.

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