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's sounds.
Listeners will also get access to episodes 28 days earlier than everyone else.
I hope you enjoy listening.
My cast away this week is the journalist and broadcaster Lorraine Kelly.
Though let's be honest, in daytime TV, no surname is necessary.
There is only one Lorraine, a morning staple in British homes for some 40 years.
She was born in Glasgow and started out as a reporter on the East Kilbride News.
In time, she graduated to covering stories across Scotland for ITV's morning news.
She was one of the first reporters on the scene in the aftermath of the Lockerbie bombing,
trying to make sense of the devastating terrorist attack
while the emergency services were still arriving.
Her calm yet compassionate coverage brought her to the attention of ITV bosses and she's been a mainstay of the morning schedule ever
since.
In her many years on our screens,
she's interviewed everyone from George Clooney and Julia Roberts to Sakia Stammer and David Cameron.
Her coverage of the Don Blaine massacre in 1996 led to a connection with the families affected that endures to this day.