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Hello, I'm Lauren LeVern and this is the Deser Island Disks Podcast.

Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take with them

if they were cast away to a desert island. This is an extended version of the original

radio for broadcast and for right reasons the music is shorter than the original broadcast.

I hope you enjoy listening.

Music

My cast away this week is the writer, Russell T. Davis. One of the most celebrated screen writers

of his generation. He's kept audiences glued to their TV sets for 30 years. All TV writers hope

for water cooler moments and he's had plenty, though his shows have also been the talk of the

school playground. He learned his craft with a BAFTA wedding stint at ITV's Granada Studios

on Kids Drama Children's Ward before expanding his remit to Primetime series and soaps.

He wanted to take Coronation Street to Las Vegas. However, it was the groundbreaking

Queeris folk about the lives of three gay friends in contemporary Manchester that made his name in 1999.

It was the first TV drama to put young British gay lives in the spotlight.

Its success was followed by the realisation of his childhood dream, the big budget regeneration

of beloved TV time lord Dr Who and three successful spin-offs. In recent years he's done some

time travel himself with multi BAFTA and Emmy-winning period piece of very English scandal and BBC

Wands years and years telling the story of an ordinary English family living in a dystopian near

future. Though on a brighter note, the likelihood of its inclusion in next year's awards list

is something to look forward to. He says, a sentence that has sustained me through all my writing is

a moment's imagination is worth a lifetime's experience. Russell T. Davies welcomed it as an

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