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.
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I hope you enjoy listening.
My cast away this week is the computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee,
inventor of the World Wide Web.
The scale of his achievement is hard to overstate.
The web has revolutionised everything from the global economy to politics,
changing how we live as individuals and societies.
Perhaps he was born to do it.
His mathematician parents met at work.
They were building one of the first computers, inspired by their contemporary friend Alan Turing.
Tim grew up fascinated by electronics and although he studied physics at Oxford he spent his free time building a computer from an old television set.
He moved to Switzerland to work at CERN and it was there in 1989 that he published the paper that led to the birth of the web.
In 1991 he created the first website.
He was knighted in 2004 and appointed to the Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth II.
In 2016, he was given the Turing Award,