Hi, it's Nicola Cochlin. Young people have been making history for years, but we don't often hear about them. My brand new series on BBC Sounds sets out to put this right. In history's youngest heroes, I'll be revealing the fascinating stories of 12 young people who've played a major role in history and who've helped shape our world. Like Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, Louis Braille and Lady Jane Grey, history's youngest heroes with me, Nicola Cochlin.

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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 2007. My castaway this week is an entertainer so central to British popular culture

he can be identified by the outline of his glasses alone.

He is Ronnie Corbett.

For more than 50 years and from late-night reviews to primetime sitcoms, his comic talents have made us laugh and made us love him, and Natalie turned out national treasure with a quick wit and a ready smile.

His success is due, of course, to his own ability, but also to two enduring and remarkable partnerships.

Along with Ronnie Barker, he formed one of the great TV

duos of all time, whilst his 40-year marriage to his wife Anne saw her abandon her

flourishing showbiz career to sustain him through the vicissitudes of fame and family life.

Ronnie, I feel as though you should be sitting here in that leather chair with the chrome arms.

It almost seemed like it was attached to you. Do you know where it is now? No, I don't. People often say,

by the way, we've got your chair. And I said, oh, I look forward to it. And it's never the same chair.

They keep getting various versions of it. So it's never the original one. I don't know where

that's gone.

The monologues that we watched in our millions

that appeared to be so rambling and appeared to be...

It almost seemed like, you know,

you in a cosy sweater at the 19th hole,

just chatting.

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