Hello, I'm Lauren Laverne and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast from BBC Radio 4.
Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks,
book and luxury that they'd want to take with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
For rights reasons,
the music's shorter than on the original broadcast but you can find a version with longer music tracks on BBC sounds.
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I hope you enjoy listening.
My cast away this week is the Labour peer and campaigner Lord Alfred Dobbs.
He came to Britain at the age of six in 1939,
a child refugee who arrived on one of the eight kinder transport trains organised by Sir Nicholas Winton that rescued mostly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.
As he grew up, he became fascinated by politics,
wondering whether the systems which had upended his life could be used for good instead.
He spent his life trying to find out.
He's campaigned on everything from road safety to the probation service,
but the cause that's been closest to his heart is the plight of refugees who come here to build new lives
like he did.
In 2016, he tabled what became known as the Dubs Amendment,
which allowed hundreds of unaccompanied child refugees to come to safety in Britain.
Perhaps most remarkably,
he's united how often divided Parliament in affectionate respect for him and his approach to political life.