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Sporting broadcaster Clare Balding is castaway by Kirsty Young. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ TV's coverage of London's 2012 Olympics was her triumph and much like Team GB she'd been in training for her big moment for quite a while. Clare has worked on five Olympic Games, four Paralympics, three Winter Olympics and a great deal of horse racing. It's on the turf that's she's most at home - her father was a champion racehorse trainer and for a number of years she herself was a leading amateur flat jockey. The first pony she ever rode, as a toddler, was a gift from the Queen; she went to public school and Cambridge but her life hasn't been an entirely easy ride. She has coped with thyroid cancer, being forcibly "outed" by the tabloid press and in her own words being "a disappointment from the moment" she was born. She says, "This may sound nauseating but I'm a very happy person. I love my work, I love my life and I'm told by those who know and love me that it's a bit like living with Tigger". DISC ONE: Barenaked Ladies - If I Had A Million Dollars DISC TWO: London String Chorale - Galloping ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ DISC THREE: Yazoo - Only You DISC FOUR: Neil Diamond - Beautiful Noise DISC FIVE: Underworld - Caliban's Dream DISC SIX: Belle and Sebastian - I Want the World to Stop DISC SEVEN: Billy Joel - She's Got a Way DISC EIGHT: Beck Goldsmith - I Vow to Thee My Country BOOK CHOICE: Encyclopaedia of Nature LUXURY CHOICE: Thermos mug with tea, milk and sugar CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Billy Joel - She's Got a Way Producer: Cathy Drysdale First broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 in December 2013.