Desert Island Discs: Archive 1991-1996

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 mythical island.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Middlemarch by George Eliot Luxury: Crème brûlée

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 show at the London Hippodrome Theatre when she was just a teenager, and then appeared regularly on Educating Archie, one of radio's biggest programmes in the 1950s.But it was appearing on Broadway that led her to being cast in the stage version of My Fair Lady, with Rex Harrison that really began to establish her as an international star, and then her first movie role, as Mary Poppins, which won her an Oscar that brought her to the attention of millions worldwide.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Piano Concerto in G by Maurice Ravel Book: The

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 from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Partita No 1 in B Flat Major by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh Luxury: Hallucinogenic drugs