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Lauren Laverne

The voice of Desert Island Discs shares the tracks that shaped her life

Broadcaster Lauren Laverne has, arguably, two of the best jobs in radio - 6 Music’s Breakfast Show and Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs.

Her career in entertainment began though as the lead singer and a guitarist in the band Kenickie and her love of performing and sharing music see's her takes Desert Island Discs to the London Palladium for a series of special live shows.

As someone who encourages people to share the music that shaped their lives we were fascinated to hear her Inheritance Tracks.

Inherited: Now Westlin Winds by Dick Gaughan
Passed on: Hit or Miss by Odetta

Producer: Ben Mitchell

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