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Microsoft founder Bill Gates talks in detail about his life to the BBC's Kirsty Young on this week's Desert Island Discs , on Radio 4 - from his schooldays , to his latest work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to "get rid of" diseases that kill young children. please feel free to share this interview on your blog  "as Bill would have wanted everyone to hear his thoughts and about the Gates Foundation" Each castaway interviewed in the programme is asked to choose eight pieces of music, a book and a luxury item to take with them to a desert island. Gates's choices are listed at the bottom of the page, after some highlights from the interview. Disruptive child At the age of 12, Gates explains, his parents sent him to see a psychologist. "I was a bit disruptive. I started, early on, sort of questioning - were their rules logical, and always to be followed? So there was a tiny bit of tension there, as I wa...