Desert Island Discs

Sue Lawley's castaway is Archbishop of Westminster Cormac Murphy O'Connor.Favourite track: Praise to the Holiest by Edward Elgar Book: Lifelines by Seamus Heaney Luxury: Grand piano

This week Sue Lawley's castaway is Martin Bell, who, after a distinguished career as a BBC foreign correspondent, became the Independent MP for Tatton in 1997. With politics now behind him, he tastes life on a mythical desert island.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]Favourite track: Amazing Grace by Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Book: Corduroy (his father's first book) by Adrian Bell Luxury: A barrel of Adnam's Ale brewed in Suffolk

Sue Lawley's castaway is folk singer-songwriter Peggy Seeger.Favourite track: The Air from Suite No 3 in D Major by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: A Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon Luxury: Banjo with plastic head with an inexhaustible supply of strings & pegs

This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the businessman, Sir Stanley Kalms. Over the last fifty years he's turned Dixons, the small photographic studio his father opened in the 1930s, into one of Britain's biggest retail outlets. The group now covers PC World, Currys and The Link. He chooses eight records to take with him to the mythical island.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]Favourite track: Air On A G String by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith Luxury: Pack of cards

Sue Lawley's castaway is chemist Sir Harry Kroto.Favourite track: 3rd Movement of Symphony No4 in G Major by Gustav Mahler Book: Quantum Electro Dynamics Physics by Feynman Luxury: Airbrush computer graphics set

Sue Lawley's castaway is Pulitzer prize-winning writer Frank McCourt.Favourite track: The Kyrie from St Cecilia Mass by Charles Gounod Book: Oxford Anthology of English Verse Luxury: A pair of binoculars

This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the Welsh painter, Sir Kyffin Williams. It was only when he was invalided out of the army because of his epilepsy that Kyffin decided to paint. "You are not normal. You should do art" was one doctor's verdict. Since then, no artist has done more to portray the brooding, mountainous landscape of North Wales.He chooses eight records to take with him to the mythical island.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]Favourite track: Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Germinal by Emile Zola Luxury: A small painting called the Head of a Girl by Michael Schwerz

Sue Lawley's castaway is opera singer Sir Thomas Allen.Favourite track: Act 3 of Meistersinger von Nurnberg by Richard Wagner Book: Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy Luxury: Unlimited supply of paper, paints, pencils

Sue Lawley's castaway is jazz saxophonist Courtney Pine.Favourite track: Guiltiness by Bob Marley and the Whalers Book: Beneath the Underdog by Charles Mingus Luxury: 1939 edition tenor saxophone

Sue Lawley's castaway is National Galleries of Scotland Director Sir Timothy Clifford.Favourite track: La Ci Darem La Mano in Act 1 of Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: A La Recherche du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust Luxury: Renaissance casket with a selection of 15th & 16th century Italian drawings in it