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Lauren Laverne here, we're taking our Easter break,

so until we're back on air, we're showcasing a few programs from our archive.

As usual, the music's been shortened for rights reasons.

This week's guest is the broadcaster Annie Nightingale, who very sadly died in January.

It was my pleasure to cast her away in July 2020. The My cast away this week is the broadcaster Annie Nightingale. Always forward-facing,

she's remained at the sharp end of popular culture for over half a century searching for new music, spearheading new movements and supporting emerging artists from David Bowie and Ian Dury to Acid House, Breakbeat and Beyond.

As well as Breaking Artists, she's known for Breaking Boundaries. She was a music journalist

when the BBC created Radio 1, their all-male response to the hugely popular

pirate radio stations of the 60s. She called them out on their sexism in print and they finally

gave her a show, becoming Radio One's first female DJ in 1970.

50 years later, she remains their longest serving presenter and has won a host of accolades,

including a CBE in this year's New Year's

honours list which she describes as the coolest Big Up ever. She says I

didn't get on the radio to be famous. I only wanted it as a medium to get the music out there. It's like

calling someone up on the phone and playing the record for them to say, hey, I just heard this.

What do you think? Annie Nightingale, welcome to Desert Island Disks.

Thanks to that run.

Thank you so much for joining us.

So you spent 50 years at Radio 1.

Has the role of a DJ changed over that time?

It hasn't yet. It hasn't.

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