Sue Lawley's castaway is biologist Sir John Sulston.
Favourite track: String Quartet in B flat major by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Oxford Anthology of English Verse
Luxury: The microscope used to examine the lineage of the roundworm
Published on Sunday, 13th May 2001.
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