Desert Island Discs

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 Once and Future King by T H White Luxury: Piano

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