BBC sounds music radio podcasts hello, I'm Lauren La Verne and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast.
Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
And for rights reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast.
I hope you enjoy listening.
My castaway this week is the award winning journalist and broadcaster Clive Myrie.
He was born just outside Bolton in Lancashire, one of seven children to jamaican parents who'd emigrated to the UK a few years earlier.
His interest in news and foreign affairs was piqued by the free reading material he picked up on his paper round and from watching his childhood heroes Alan Wicker and Sir Trevor Macdonald on tv.
He spent many years as a foreign correspondent, reporting from war zones including Afghanistan, Kosovo and Iraq.
He has a longstanding interest in us politics and has covered seven presidential elections, including Barack Obamas historic victory in 2008.
Next month hes leading the BBCs election night coverage along with Laura Coonsen.
In 2021, he became the quizmaster of the BBC's much loved mastermind.
But he hasn't lost his appetite for reporting from the sharp end covering the NHS response to Covid, as well as the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and the Israel Gaza war.
He says there's an adrenaline rush in being a journalist on the front line, something that makes you want to go back for more.
Although for me I don't think it's the sense that I'm potentially in danger.
It's just about telling stories from incredible places.
Clive Moiry, welcome to Desert island discs.
Thank you for having me.
It's great to be here.
You're so welcome.
But listen, Clive, let's start with that adrenaline rush because it's such an emotional dichotomy that sits right at the heart of war reporting, isn't it?