Hello I'm Kirstie Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1993 and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My castaway this week is a businessman, born into a family of Polish Jewish immigrants he was orphaned by the age of nine and brought up by his older brothers.

He studied at the London School of Economics and married the daughter of a manufacturer, the owner of a small electrical company.

By the age of 34 he was its managing director and today the company is a huge institution.

Safe, careful and very rich it embodies the man who has steered it through nine changes of government

and six prime ministers.

He is the managing director of G.C. Lord Weinstein stock, and a man who's managed to avoid personal publicity so skillfully

Lord Winestock that there are only a handful of cuttings about you in BBC files.

Would you describe yourself as a shy man?

I am shy I must say that I find rather surprising that

me be the PROs or publicity departments has not picked up more of these rather

disagreeable cuttings which have appeared from time to time which

I'd rather hadn't been there.

But there are very many of them.

I mean you do refuse interviews in the main, don't you?

Yes, I don't like it.

I don't have a flamboyant personality and I never been attracted to this

public relations way of doing things. And one can understand that I suppose on the

personal level and your desire to remain private, but you're also, I suppose, quite a mysterious figure in the business sense as well.

You don't take to public platforms, you don't crusade in the way that perhaps the Sir John Harvey Jones is having Lord King one might think of

you're not there you're not speaking up why is that?

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