Desert Island Discs

Sue Lawley's castaway is director Elijah Moshinsky. Favourite track: Requiem: Agnes Dei by Giuseppe Verdi Book: Michael Frayn translation of Complete Plays by Anton Chekhov Luxury: A duvet

Sue Lawley's castaway is civil servant Sir Robin Butler. Favourite track: Messiah I Know That My Redeemer Liveth by George Frideric Handel Book: Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy Luxury: A bag of golf clubs and golf balls

Sue Lawley's castaway is psychiatrist Anthony Storr. Favourite track: String Quintet No 3 in G Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust Luxury: Piano

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the musician Evelyn Glennie. Profoundly deaf since the age of 12, her extraordinary talent as a virtuoso percussionist has taken her all over the world, giving performances on hundreds of instruments, from the tambourine and the tubular bells to the marimba and the drums. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her determination to become a musician a...

Sue Lawley's castaway is cyclist and writer Dervla Murphy. Favourite track: Triple Concerto in C Major by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Diary by Samuel Pepys Luxury: A still (to distill berries, etc. into drink)

Sue Lawley's castaway is QC Barbara Mills. Favourite track: Un Ballo In Maschera: E Scherzo Od E Follia by Giuseppe Verdi Book: History of the Crusades by Stephen Runciman Luxury: Tennis court, balls, racket and wall

Sue Lawley's castaway is poet Elizabeth Jennings. Favourite track: Horn Concerto No 4 In E Flat Major K 495 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: The New Oxford Book of American Verse by Richard Elman Luxury: Pad, felt pens and biros

The castaway this week in a special extended edition of the programme is Stephen Hawking, author of the best-selling A Brief History of Time and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. He will be talking to Sue Lawley about his life and work, and the illness which has left him severely disabled for 25 years, as well as selecting the eight records he would choose to take to the m...

Sue Lawley's castaway is designer Paul Smith. Favourite track: Queen of the Slipstream by Van Morrison Book: Beano Annual 1974 Luxury: Notebook and pencil

Sue Lawley's castaway is botanist Professor Ghillean Prance. Favourite track: Amazing Grace by The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Book: The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White Luxury: Accordian

Sue Lawley's castaway is publisher and writer Carmen Callil. Favourite track: Adagio In E Flat by Franz Schubert Book: Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson Luxury: Film - The Commitments

Sue Lawley's castaway is politician Lord Tebbit. Favourite track: Chorus Of Hebrew Slaves by Giuseppe Verdi Book: History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Sir Winston Churchill Luxury: Drinking fountain with two taps - Sancerre and Claret

Sue Lawley's castaway is conductor John Eliot Gardiner. Favourite track: Peter's Denial (St. Matthew Passion) by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Memoirs by Hector Berlioz Luxury: Sancerre

Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Christabel Bielenberg. Favourite track: Deep River by Paul Robeson Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Luxury: A comfortable chair

Sue Lawley's castaway is the Gulf War General H Norman Schwarzkopf. Favourite track: Battle Hymn Of The Republic by Howe-Steffe Book: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Luxury: His dog, Bear

Sue Lawley's castaway is trade unionist Gavin Laird. Favourite track: Symphony No 3 in C Minor (Organ Symphony) by Camille Saint-Saëns Book: Diary by Samuel Pepys Luxury: Year's recording of the Today programme

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Julie Andrews, the star of such film favourites as Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. Julie Andrews discovered she had an unusual talent for singing quite early and first appeared on stage alongside her step-father and her mother in their act, touring the Variety theatres of Great Britain in the 1940s and early 1950s. She had an enormous hit in a...

Sue Lawley's castaway is businessman and politician Lord Sainsbury. Favourite track: String Quintet In C Second Movement by Franz Schubert Book: The New Oxford Book of English Verse Luxury: Bed

Sue Lawley's castaway is actress Juliet Stevenson. Favourite track: Sonata No 3 in G Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Complete Works by W B Yeats Luxury: Masaccio Frescos in the Brancacci Chapel

Sue Lawley's castaway is founder of the Samaritans Chad Varah. Favourite track: Aria: Dulcis Amor by George Frideric Handel Book: The New Oxford Book of English Verse Luxury: Own bathroom run by solar power with hot and cold water and a video player attached

Sue Lawley's castaway is chef Raymond Blanc. Favourite track: Hungarian Dance No 1 in G Minor by Johannes Brahms Book: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery Luxury: A good luck stone (from his wife)

Sue Lawley's castaway is psychologist Penelope Leach. Favourite track: Prelude No 6 In D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Complete Works by Sigmund Freud Luxury: Coffee

Sue Lawley's castaway is musician Bob Geldof. Favourite track: In The Garden by Van Morrison Book: Diary by Samuel Pepys Luxury: The Metropolitan Museum of New York

Sue Lawley's castaway is politician David Mellor. Favourite track: Tristan und Isolde - Liebestod by Richard Wagner Book: The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy Luxury: Telephone (disconnected)

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is newspaper columnist Sir Peregrine Worsthorne. Outspoken and flamboyant, he believes that the columnists' brief is to supply opinions for those who haven't the time to think. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his life and work and remembering how his use of a four-letter word on primetime television blighted his career for several years. [Taken fr...