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Russell T Davies is one of the U.K.\\u2019s most successful television writers. He spent his teenage years learning his dramatic craft with the West Glamorgan Youth Theatre, and his career in television began in the children\\u2019s department at the BBC.

His first solo hit TV series was the ground-breaking, sexually frank drama Queer as Folk, first broadcast on Channel 4 in 1999.

A lifelong Doctor Who fan, he relaunched the series in 2005 for a new generation of viewers. Such was its success, he found himself working around the clock.

More recently, he wrote the highly-acclaimed series A Very English Scandal, starring Hugh Grant as Jeremy Thorpe, and the dystopian drama Years and Years.

DISC ONE: Julie Covington, Charlotte Cornwell, Rula Lenska - Sugar Mountain \\nDISC TWO: Hora Staccato (1950 version) performed by Jascha Heifetz and Emanuel Bay\\nDISC THREE: The New Christy Minstrels - Three Wheels on My Wagon - \\nDISC FOUR: Leonard Bernstein's Gloria in excelsis, performed by The Norman Scribner Choir\\nDISC FIVE: Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights \\nDISC SIX: The OT Quartet - Hold That Sucker Down (Builds Like A Skyscraper Mix)\\nDISC SEVEN: Neil Hannon - Song For Ten \\nDISC EIGHT: Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky

BOOK CHOICE: Asterix and the Roman Agent by by Ren\\xe9 Goscinny with illustrations by Albert Uderzo\\nLUXURY ITEM: A black Ball Pentol Pen \\nCASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Leonard Bernstein's Gloria in excelsis

Presenter: Lauren Laverne\\nProducer: Sarah Taylor