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

Sue Lawley's castaway is chemist Sir Harry Kroto.

Favourite track: 3rd Movement of Symphony No4 in G Major by Gustav Mahler

Sue Lawley's castaway is Pulitzer prize-winning writer Frank McCourt.

Favourite track: The Kyrie from St Cecilia Mass by Charles Gounod

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

Sue Lawley's castaway is opera singer Sir Thomas Allen.

Favourite track: Act 3 of Meistersinger von Nurnberg by Richard Wagner

Sue Lawley's castaway is jazz saxophonist Courtney Pine.

Favourite track: Guiltiness by Bob Marley and the Whalers

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

Sue Lawley's castaway is biologist Sir John Sulston.

Favourite track: String Quartet in B flat major by Ludwig van Beethoven

Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Margaret Drabble.

Favourite track: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth - (from Messiah) by George Frideric Handel

Sue Lawley's castaway is violinist Tasmin Little.

Favourite track: Daphnis & Chloe by Maurice Ravel