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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 actor and director Samantha Morton,

who was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship this year. I cast her away in 2020. The My cast away this week is the actor and director Samantha Morton. She was still a teenager when her breakthrough roles in the TV drama's Cracker and Band of Gold earned her a formidable reputation.

By her mid-20s she was a Hollywood star, working with the likes of Stephen Spielberg and Woody Allen and winning two Oscar nominations.

Twenty years and many awards later she's one of the most respected actors of her generation

with the Quicksilver talent, her minority report co-star Tom Cruz once described

as lightning in a bottle.

If her professional achievements are extraordinary in themselves, set alongside her personal story, they're nothing short of miraculous.

She grew up in care, left school at 13, experienced homelessness as a young teenager, and

is a survivor of childhood trauma that more recently in her career she's

returned to on-screen in the BAFTA winning films I am Kirsty and her

directorial debut The Unloved. She says I I'm an actor. This is what I do. I'm not a charity worker. I'm not a doctor. And this is my way of giving back. This is the best I can do to try and share with people how it feels.

Samantha Morton welcome to Desert Island Disks.

Hello, thank you for having me.

Well it's a real pleasure.

Sam we're not together today.

You're recording at home.

Tell me a little bit about the roles that you play.

I mean, you've played historical parts, Mary Queen of Scots, Jane Eyre, Harriet Smith in Emma,

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