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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.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 2006, and the presenter was Sue Lawley.

Music My castaway this week is an actor.

As gay Uncle Monty in the film Withnall and I, he won a whole generation of fans.

As Beastly Uncle Vernon in the Harry Potter films, he's won an entirely new one.

He's famous for many other roles, too, as the detective chef hero of the BBC series Pie in the Sky,

and most recently as the English master in Alan Bennett's hugely successful play,

The History Boys. He's had to work hard for his achievements. Both his parents were profoundly

deaf and couldn't speak. Throughout his childhood, he was their ears and voice. He disappointed

his father by deserting art college for the performing arts and then worked his way up slowly through

the RSC and finally into television and films too. He won three best actor awards for the

history boys and the big screen version is currently in post-production while he stars in the West End hit

heroes, all proof if it were needed that he's one of this country's leading character

actors. He is Richard Griffiths. You've really cornered the market, Richard, in larger,

vuncular figures, haven't you? Gay or Beasley or whatever. Which one offers you greatest

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