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Helen Fielding, writer and journalist, is best known for creating Bridget Jones, who first appeared in a newspaper column in the Independent in 1995, in the form of a diary detailing the single 30-something\\u2019s exploits in London as she tried to make sense of life and love. The column soon acquired a wider following, and Helen turned Bridget\\u2019s story into a best-selling book the following year.

Born in 1958, Helen grew up in Yorkshire with an older sister and two younger brothers. Her father was a manager at the textile mill next door to where they lived.\\nShe read English at Oxford where she became friends with Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson. After graduating, she became a BBC trainee, travelling to Africa for Comic Relief. She later made documentaries for Thames TV before moving into print journalism.

To date, Helen has written four Bridget Jones novels, three of which have been turned into feature films starring Ren\\xe9e Zellweger. She spent a decade in Los Angeles at the start of the new millennium and had two children with Kevin Curran, who was a scriptwriter for The Simpsons. She now lives in London.

DISC ONE: Fly Me to the Moon by Julie London\\nDISC TWO: The Windmills of Your Mind by Noel Harrison\\nDISC THREE: It Must Be Love by Madness\\nDISC FOUR: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30, composed by Sergei Rachmaninov, conducted by Valery Gergiev and performed by Denis Matsuev (piano) and Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra\\nDISC FIVE: La Isla Bonita by Madonna\\nDISC SIX: I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor\\nDISC SEVEN: I\\u2019ve Got the World on a String by Frank Sinatra\\nDISC EIGHT: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered by Stan Getz & The Oscar Peterson Trio\\n \\nBOOK CHOICE: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen\\nLUXURY ITEM: A magical tree\\nCASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: It Must Be Love by Madness

Presenter: Lauren Laverne\\nProducer: Cathy Drysdale