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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.

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My castaway this week is the Aviator, inventor and arts patron Sir Torkel Norman.

His extraordinary flying adventures are the stuff of a David Niven film,

whilst the creations that have made his fortune are a bit more chitty-chitty-bang-bang.

After a stint on Wall Street and then a businessman,

he found himself in his mid-40s,

unemployed and with five children to provide for.

So he set up a toy company.

It's huge success, delighting both children and his bank manager.

The skills he needed to succeed where he says,

a close attention to detail,

combined with the outluhan life

of a seven-year-old. He was, he admits, perfectly qualified. In retirement, he set about his

biggest project. He bought a disused railway engine shed and raised tens of millions of pounds

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