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 castaway this week is the comedian and writer Sarah Pascoe.
Her comedy is omnivorous, taking her from stints on crowd-pleasing shows like QI,
Taskmaster and the Great British Sewing Bee to critically acclaimed stand-up,
which often blends the intellectual with the observational.
One successful Edinburgh run riffed on Nietzsche and the possibility
of her boyfriend cheating on her with her doppelganger.
She 's also a screenwriter and the author of three books,
including her debut novel Weirdo, which last year won the inaugural Jilly Cooper Prize for Fiction.
She was born in Dagenham and raised by a single mother who,
she says, delights in telling everyone how unfunny she was as a child.
In fact, she chanced upon stand-up after seeing her then-boyfriend's turn at an open mic night.
Of performing, she says, the last thing that goes through my head beforehand is always.
Why do I do this?