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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

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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 has done more than perhaps anyone else to shatter the glass ceiling.

She is Nicola Horlick, a mother of six children and now step-mum to another three. Her proud boast is that she's never missed a sports day

or a school speech day. She says her career as one of our top investment bankers is an extension

of her maternal instinct, nurturing the companies she's plowing funds into.

With apparently limitless energy, talent and ambition, she seemed to be the one woman who had managed to have it all.

Until that is, her eldest daughter Georgie was diagnosed with leukemia.

For 10 years, she combined nursing her daughter with her highly successful career,

whilst also looking after

the rest of her growing family. Nicola Horlick, it was during that time that you were given the nickname

Superwoman in the press. I don't know if it makes you Blanche or if you secretly quite enjoy it.

What do you make of that title? I really do Blanche, actually, because I really think that somebody

who has a highly paid job and has lots of help at home is not a superwoman.

I've also been very lucky that my mother is relatively young.

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