Hello, I'm Krestey 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 1994, and the presenter was Sue Lawley. My castaway this week is a journalist, born 54 54 years ago the son of hard-working

Trinidadians he was encouraged to read the works of Dickens and Tennyson and

daily devour back editions of the Times and The Spectator. In the early 70s, after working in Caribbean local radio and television,

he wrote to ITN, asking for a job.

He got one and so became Britain's first black television newsman.

Since then, he's traveled the world interviewing some of its most controversial leaders, Arafat,

Mandela and Saddam Hussein.

His clipped style of speech and relaxed authority have won him great popularity at home.

He was recently voted our most popular news reader.

He is the presenter of the News at 10, Trevor McDonald.

And indeed now Trevor, it's sole presenter because it's been a one-man show,

really, for the past 18 months.

That's right, it became a one-man show, as you say, 18 months ago.

So it's all up to me, is it?

But is it a more difficult, there for? it is more difficult because you get more involved in fact it's difficult not to be

totally absorbed by what you're doing but is it more nerve-racking alone it's more

nerve-racking and it's much harder work.

Is it? There's nobody to share the pain with, the worry with.

The last night we did it as a duo, one of my colleagues said to me,

you know, you'll never realize how much you could goof off, as it were, in the middle of a bulletin

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