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 explorer and the UK's chief scout, Dwayne Fields.
His expeditions have taken him from the deserts of Oman to the rainforests of Gabon via the Arctic.
He 's the first Black Britain to reach the magnetic North Pole,
has made TV programmes charting his adventures all over the world and co-created the We Too Foundation to take young people
from challenging backgrounds like his on life-changing adventures.
He was born in Jamaica, where he spent his early years happily exploring the countryside under his granny's care.
But when he was six, he found himself uprooted and unhappily replanted in Hackney, wondering where the trees had gone.
He found refuge at his local Cub Scout troop.
As a teenager, growing up on a North London estate, he was exposed to gang violence.
By his mid-twenties, he'd been robbed, stabbed and shot at.
The natural world became his escape route and in 2010, he signed up for an Arctic adventure.
It was a decision that changed his life.
He says, I want to demonstrate that there are no limits to what you can achieve.