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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.

For more information about the programme, please visit BBC.co.ukaucom.uk slash radio four. My castaway this week is the director, producer and writer, Lewis Gilbert.

He has spent 70-odd years in the movie business, with his credit rolling on no less than 38 feature films.

But it's the quality as much as the quantity that's striking.

Reach for the Sky, Alfie, The Spy Who Loved Me, Educating Rita, and Shirley Valentine are some of his most notable hits.

It all began way back in silent films when he was a child actor.

The fact is, since the age of four, I've been in the business of entertainment, he says,

and I knew that entertainment was where I belonged.

I'm wondering, Lewis Gilbert, how you knew that you belonged in entertainment.

What was it about the business that spoke to you?

Well, I never knew anything else from birth.

For the first four years of my life, I toured around

England with my father's vaudeville act and I stood at the side of the stage. My grandmother

had ten children and she put every one of them into vaudeville. They're all different acts.

It made me very conscious of being in show business.

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