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.
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 actor Kate Winslet who can forget the image of her on the prow of the Titanic alongside her co-star Leonardo DiCaprio in her breakthrough role as Rose in the James Cameron blockbuster.
She made her film debut at 17 as a teenage killer in Heavenly Creatures and today she's arguably the preeminent British actress of her generation.
Her creative palette is a veritable rainbow.
She's played parts in comedies like The Holiday,
offbeat hits including The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
period pieces like Anne Lee's Sense and Sensibility, and her own production,
Lee, which recounts the wartime experiences of the photographer Lee Miller.
Another of her productions, the HBO series Mayor of Easttown, won her an Emmy.
the second in her awards collection, along with her Oscar, numerous BAFTAs, Golden Globes,
a Grammy, a CBE, and her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
She follows all of this, this Christmas, with her directorial debut.
Not bad for a kid from Reading who started out dancing in a sugar puffs commercial.
She says, I can't just learn my lines and do it,