EPISODE · May 13, 2001 · 35 MIN
Sir John Sulston
from Desert Island Discs · host BBC Radio 4
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
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