List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1991–2000)
The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites castaways to choose eight pieces of music, a book (in addition to the Bible - or a religious text appropriate to that person's beliefs - and the Complete Works of Shakespeare) and a luxury item that they would take to an imaginary desert island, where they will be marooned indefinitely. The rules state that the chosen luxury item must not be anything animate or indeed anything that enables the castaway to escape from the island, for instance a radio set, sailing yacht or aeroplane. The choices of book and luxury can sometimes give insight into the guest's life, and the choices of guests between 1991 and 2000 are listed here.
1991
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
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6 January 1991 | Lord Goodman | Who's Who | chocolate gingers | An enormous box ofmore |
13 January 1991 | Adelaide Hall | A book about American history | Box of seeds | more |
20 January 1991 | Fred Zinnemann | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | scotch | Very large self-renewing bottle ofmore |
27 January 1991 | Brian Eno | Richard Rorty | Contingency, Irony and Solidarity byRadio telescope | more |
3 February 1991 | Professor Ralf Dahrendorf | Greek poetry | A book ofDice to test the luck of a ship rescuing him | more |
10 February 1991 | Paddy Ashdown MP | John Donne | The collected works ofLaptop computer | more |
17 February 1991 | Dame Ninette de Valois | A collection of poems | sleeping pills | An everlasting bottle ofmore |
24 February 1991 | Ronald Eyre | talking book by Judi Dench | ASupply of flower bulbs | more |
3 March 1991 | Sir Denis Forman | Raj Quartet by Paul Scott | Satellite dish and TV | more |
10 March 1991 | Jeffrey Bernard | Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Completehunting rifle and ammunition | High poweredmore |
17 March 1991 | Sir Trevor Holdsworth | J. B. Priestley | Collected Plays ofpiano | Uprightmore |
24 March 1991 | Marti Caine | manual | Do-it-yourselfDo-it-yourself kit | more |
7 April 1991 | Naomi Mitchison | poetry | Book of modernEndless supply of writing materials | more |
14 April 1991 | Lord King | Brewer's Dictionary of Phase and Fable | Supply of cigars and matches | more |
21 April 1991 | Jonathan Sacks | The Talmud | Large supply of pencils | more |
28 April 1991 | Dame Shirley Porter | SAS Survival Manual | Large Swiss Army Knife | more |
12 May 1991 | Cecil Lewis | C. S. Lewis | Sagittarius Surviving byFax machine | more |
19 May 1991 | John Simpson | Marcel Proust | Anything in French byFlute | more |
26 May 1991 | John Smith | Anthology of poems | Case of champagne | more |
2 June 1991 | Marco Pierre White | Fernand Point | Ma Gastronomie byPicture of his daughter | more |
9 June 1991 | Derek Walcott | Ulysses by James Joyce | Carton of cigarettes | more |
16 June 1991 | A. S. Byatt | Marcel Proust | A la recherche du temps perdu byfiling cabinet full of A4 paper and pens | Largemore |
23 June 1991 | John Hegarty | The Crock of Gold by James Stephens | Clarinet | more |
30 June 1991 | Ron Todd | Robert Burns | The collected works ofPiano | more |
7 July 1991 | Lord Shawcross | The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope | CD player/solar-powered radio | more |
25 August 1991 | Alan Bleasdale | Joseph Heller | Catch 22 byNail clippers | more |
1 September 1991 | Maxwell Hutchinson | Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot | Guitar | more |
8 September 1991 | Bernice Rubens | John Donne | Poems For Joy and Sermons For Solace bypainting by her daughter | Amore |
15 September 1991 | John Banham | A. E. Housman | The collected works ofCigars and matches | more |
22 September 1991 | Klaus Tennstedt | Thomas Mann | Dr Faustus byMountain bike | more |
29 September 1991 | David Bailey | Voices of Silence by Malraux | Nelson's Column | more |
6 October 1991 | Imran Khan | Iqbal | Bang-E-Dara byShotgun and clay pigeon trap | more |
13 October 1991 | John Schlesinger | Dictionary of Quotations | Magimix (battery powered) | more |
20 October 1991 | Elizabeth Esteve-Coll | Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot | Expensive perfumed hand cream | more |
27 October 1991 | Alan Alda | Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe | Italian pasta | more |
3 November 1991 | E. P. Thompson | William Blake | Songs of Innocence and Experience byTypewriter and paper | more |
10 November 1991 | Lord Delfont | –1985 British Music Theatre Book | 1515Cigars and matches | more |
17 November 1991 | James Lovelock | Francis Palgrave | The Golden Treasury byPen and paper | more |
24 November 1991 | Dilys Powell | Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens | Mouth organ with instructions | more |
1 December 1991 | Fred Dibnah | Bound volumes of the Engineer magazine | Steamroller | more |
8 December 1991 | Sue Townsend | Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis | Swimming pool of champagne | more |
22 December 1991 | Gorden Kaye | Gorden Kaye | This Is Your Life byOxford lights | A clock given to him for turning on themore |
1992
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
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12 January 1992 | Steven Berkoff | gardening book | APiano | more |
19 January 1992 | Reverend David Jenkins | Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The CompleteBinoculars | more |
26 January 1992 | John Major | The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope | bowling machine | Oval cricket ground replica andmore |
2 February 1992 | J. G. Ballard | Herman Melville | Moby Dick byUnicycle | more |
9 February 1992 | Robbie Coltrane | The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler | Pencils and paper | more |
16 February 1992 | Sir Roger Bannister | Anthology of Russian, American and English stories | receiver to receive BBC Radio 4 | Solar-poweredmore |
23 February 1992 | Elvis Costello | James Thurber | Selected Works ofpiano | Uprightmore |
1 March 1992 | Dr Steve Jones | Anthony Powell | Valley of Bones byStuffed body of the Minister of Education | more |
8 March 1992 | Jocelyn Stevens | Lord Wavell | Other Men's Flowers byRiver Test in Hampshire | One mile stretch of themore |
15 March 1992 | Sir Isaiah Berlin | Works, prose and verse by Aleksandr Pushkin | Large armchair stacked with cushions | more |
22 March 1992 | Lady Soames | Memories from Beyond the Grave by Chateaubriand | Supply of fine Havana cigars | more |
5 April 1992 | Sir Ernst Gombrich | Goethe's Poems by Johann Wolfgang Goethe | Bathtub with an endless supply of hot water | more |
26 April 1992 | Anthony Rolfe Johnson | Welsh/English Dictionary | Parquet floor and tap shoes | more |
3 May 1992 | Henrietta, Marchioness of Tavistock | Winston Churchill | History of the English-Speaking Peoples bypillow | Triangularmore |
10 May 1992 | Will Carling | The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien | Flotation tank | more |
17 May 1992 | Michael Grade | The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame | Sports results | more |
24 May 1992 | Baron Taylor of Gosforth | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Piano | more |
31 May 1992 | Prunella Scales | German and the Bible in Russian, and a Russian dictionary | The Complete Works of Shakespeare intapestry kit | Hugemore |
7 June 1992 | Duncan Goodhew | J. R. R. Tolkien | Lord of the Rings byWig | more |
14 June 1992 | Robert Lindsay | Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence | Computer chess set | more |
21 June 1992 | Terry Waite | Cambridge Histories | CompleteChess computer | more |
28 June 1992 | Vivienne Westwood | Marcel Proust | À la recherche du temps perdu byMulti-lingual dictionary | more |
5 July 1992 | Claire Short | Geometry tutor | Piano | more |
12 July 1992 | Mohamed Amin | - | - | more |
19 July 1992 | Sir Peregrine Worsthorne | Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh | Hallucinogenic drugs | more |
26 July 1992 | David Mellor | The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy | Telephone (disconnected) | more |
6 September 1992 | Bob Geldof | Samuel Pepys | The Diary ofMetropolitan Museum in New York | more |
13 September 1992 | Penelope Leach | Sigmund Freud | The Complete Works ofCoffee | more |
20 September 1992 | Raymond Blanc | The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery | A good luck stone (from his wife) | more |
27 September 1992 | Chad Varah | The New Oxford Book of English Verse | bathroom run by solar power with hot and cold water and a video player attached | Ownmore |
4 October 1992 | Juliet Stevenson | The Complete Works of W. B. Yeats | Brancacci Chapel | Masaccio Frescos in themore |
11 October 1992 | Lord Sainsbury | The New Oxford Book of English Verse | Bed | more |
18 October 1992 | Julie Andrews | The Once and Future King by T. H. White | Piano | more |
25 October 1992 | Gavin Laird | Samuel Pepys | The Diary ofToday programme | Year's recording of themore |
1 November 1992 | General H Norman Schwarzkopf | The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran | His dog, Bear | more |
8 November 1992 | Christabel Bielenberg | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | A comfortable chair | more |
22 November 1992 | John Eliot Gardiner | Hector Berlioz | Memoirs bySancerre | more |
29 November 1992 | Lord Tebbit | Winston Churchill | History of the English-Speaking Peoples byDrinking fountain with taps for sancerre and claret | more |
6 December 1992 | Carmen Callil | Henry Handel Richardson | Maurice Guest byThe Commitments | A film -more |
13 December 1992 | Professor Ghillean Prance | Selborne by Gilbert White | The Natural History ofAccordion | more |
20 December 1992 | Paul Smith | The Beano Annual 1974 | Notebook and pencil | more |
25 December 1992 | Stephen Hawking | Middlemarch by George Eliot | Creme brulee | more |
1993
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
---|---|---|---|---|
3 January 1993 | Elizabeth Jennings | The New Oxford Book of American Verse | Pad, felt pens and biros | more |
10 January 1993 | Barbara Mills QC | History of the Crusades by Stephen Runciman | Tennis court, balls, racket and wall | more |
17 January 1993 | Dervla Murphy | Samuel Pepys | The Diary ofstill to distill berries, etc., into drink | Amore |
24 January 1993 | Evelyn Glennie | Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman | Chocolate | more |
31 January 1993 | Anthony Storr | Marcel Proust | A la recherche du temps perdu byPiano | more |
21 February 1993 | Sir Robin Butler | Paul Kennedy | Rise and Fall of the Great Powers byA bag of golf clubs and balls | more |
28 February 1993 | Elijah Moshinsky | Michael Frayn translation of the Complete Plays of Anton Chekhov | duvet | Amore |
7 March 1993 | Ken Livingstone MP | Marion Zimmer Bradley | The Myths of Avalon byThe World Service | more |
14 March 1993 | David Croft | Collected Poems of Sir John Betjeman | Piano | more |
4 April 1993 | Richard Gregory | astronomy book by Patrick Moore | AnAstronomical telescope | more |
11 April 1993 | Lord Oaksey | P. G. Wodehouse | Mr Mulliner's Memoirs byCargo of champagne | more |
18 April 1993 | Anton Edelmann | Rainer Maria Rilke | Tibetan Book of Living and Dying byWok | more |
25 April 1993 | Baroness Blackstone | Middlemarch by George Eliot | Tennis balls and racket | more |
2 May 1993 | John Boorman | Memories, Dreams and Reflections by Karl Jung | Telescope | more |
9 May 1993 | John Cole | Marcel Proust | À la recherche du temps perdu byTypewriter | more |
16 May 1993 | Eva Burrows | Faber Book of Religious Verse | Scrabble with paper and pencil | Game ofmore |
23 May 1993 | Lord Weinstock | Primo Levi | If This Be A Man byPhotograph album of family, friends and colleagues | more |
30 May 1993 | Kaye Webb | Naomi Lewis | Poetry ofphotograph album on a wheeling table | Very bigmore |
6 June 1993 | Frank Bruno | Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe | Picture of his family | more |
13 June 1993 | Rt Hon Betty Boothroyd MP | Vikram Seth | A Suitable Boy byMace of the House of Commons | more |
20 June 1993 | Joan Baez | The Diary of Anne Frank | Personal pouch with a silver lion on it | more |
27 June 1993 | Sir Leon Brittan | The collected works of Chaucer | Ordnance Survey maps of England | Collection of large-scalemore |
4 July 1993 | Peter Mayle | The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa | The menu from his favourite Parisien restaurant | more |
11 July 1993 | Nicholas Hytner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The collected works ofLarge supply of total block suncream | more |
12 September 1993 | Isabel Allende | All correspondence between her and her mother | Paper and pencils | more |
19 September 1993 | Paul Merton | Buster Keaton by Rudi Blesh | Biography ofBed | more |
26 September 1993 | Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo | On the Road by Jack Kerouac | Telescope | more |
3 October 1993 | Virginia Bottomley | Norton's Star Atlas | BBC Radio 4's Today programme | more |
10 October 1993 | Lesley Garrett | Photograph album | Tightrope | more |
17 October 1993 | Raymond Seitz | Oxford Anthology of Modern Poetry | Big box full of family albums | more |
24 October 1993 | Kenny Everett | Eagle annual | Bathroom suite | more |
31 October 1993 | Stephen Tumim | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy bybust of Laurence Sterne | Marbelmore |
7 November 1993 | Sybil Marshall | Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain | Inexhaustible supply of Swiss lawn handkerchiefs | more |
14 November 1993 | Shirley Anne Field | Reader's Digest | Chippendale mirror | Largemore |
21 November 1993 | Doris Lessing | A Thousand and One Nights | Magic carpet | more |
28 November 1993 | Taki Theodoracopulos | Ernest Hemingway | Essential Hemingway byBoxing punchbag | more |
19 December 1993 | Phil Collins | Gary Larson | Prehsitory of the Far Side byPiano | more |
26 December 1993 | Lord Ashley of Stoke | A book about warfare | Smoked salmon and wine | more |
1994
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
---|---|---|---|---|
2 January 1994 | Oliver Sacks | Dictionary of Musical Themes | Scuba diving kit | more |
9 January 1994 | Ian Hislop | Kenneth Clark | Civilisation byFrosties | more |
16 January 1994 | Sir Harrison Birtwistle | Latin Primer | AChainsaw | more |
23 January 1994 | Willy Russell | Latin Primer | Ameadow with an oak tree | Englishmore |
30 January 1994 | Dame Cicely Saunders | Oxford Dictionary of Quotations | Pen and paper | more |
6 February 1994 | Douglas Adams | P. G. Wodehouse | Omnibus of Golfing Stories byguitar | Martin D28 left-handedmore |
13 February 1994 | Rosemary Verey | A Celebration of Gardens by Sir Roy Strong | Waterproof pens, paper and folders | more |
20 February 1994 | Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke MP | Lord David Cecil | The Life of Lord Melbourne byTenor sax | more |
27 February 1994 | Frances Partridge | Memoirs by Duke de Saint-Simon | Flower press | more |
6 March 1994 | Christina Dodwell | The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran | Pen and paper | more |
27 March 1994 | Conrad Black | - | - | more |
3 April 1994 | Sir Ranulph Fiennes | Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake | Antisan for insect bites | more |
10 April 1994 | Roger McGough | The Times atlas of the night sky | Black cab | more |
17 April 1994 | Alan Hacker | Middlemarch by George Eliot | Hovercraft wheelchair with cappuccino machine | more |
24 April 1994 | Trevor McDonald | poetry | Anthology ofBox of paints, brushes and paper | more |
1 May 1994 | Garrison Keillor | Roget's Thesaurus | china (four place settings) | Set ofmore |
8 May 1994 | Sir John Wilson | chess strategy book (in Braille) | AA sonic probe | more |
15 May 1994 | Kate Adie | The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer | Victorian bath with claw feet | Largemore |
22 May 1994 | Britt Ekland | Vanity Fair, Vogue | Recent editions of magazines, e.g.Case of Evian water and champagne | more |
29 May 1994 | Peter Scudamore | verse by Rudyard Kipling | Book ofSnorkeling equipment | more |
5 June 1994 | Milton Schulman | Constance Spry | The Cookery Book byball machine | Tennis racket andmore |
12 June 1994 | Zoë Wanamaker | Robert Graves | Greek Myths bytobacco and liquorice Rizla papers | Samsonmore |
19 June 1994 | Brian Sewell | Songs from the 1880s with piano accompanimnet by Schubert | Sculpture by Michelangelo | more |
26 June 1994 | John Drummond | Encyclopaedia of the all the well-known operas | Small theatre | more |
3 July 1994 | Derek Jameson | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck | Word processor | more |
10 July 1994 | Rabbi Hugo Gryn | Churchill by Martin Gilbert | Biography ofparking space | Amore |
11 September 1994 | Joanna Trollope | Oxford Book of English Verse | Egyptian sheets | Bed and whitemore |
18 September 1994 | John Tavener | Apophthegmata Patrum (early writing of Egyptian fathers) | piano | Uprightmore |
25 September 1994 | Mary Stott | The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler | Watercolours for painting | more |
2 October 1994 | Professor James Fenton | Dante Alighieri | The Divine Comedy bymask and harpoon | Snorkel,more |
9 October 1994 | Jeanette Winterson | Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot | case of Krug champagne | Amore |
16 October 1994 | Sir George Christie | Charles Darwin | Origin of Species byBBC Radio 4's The Archers - all the recordings from the beginning | more |
23 October 1994 | Lynda La Plante | Honoré de Balzac | Fairy Stories byMouth organ | more |
30 October 1994 | Kathleen Hale | Marcel Proust | A la recherche du temps perdu byA gilabra (cloak of gold) | more |
6 November 1994 | Archbishop Desmond Tutu | Parting the Waters by Branch Taylor | rum and raisin flavour) | Ice-cream maker (especially formore |
13 November 1994 | Berthold Goldschmidt | Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann | shaving kit | Vanity case including metal mirror andmore |
20 November 1994 | Glenys Kinnock | Atlas of the Third World | Toilet bag full of skin-barrier creams | more |
27 November 1994 | Sir Howard Hodgkin | Eugène Delacroix | Journal De Eugène Delacroix byMayonnaise - permanent supply | more |
4 December 1994 | Margaret Foster | V. S. Naipaul | A House For Mr Biswas bywhite paper and cartridges for fountain pen | Unlimited supply of A4more |
18 December 1994 | Penelope Hobhouse | The Golden Bowl by Henry James | Laptop computer | more |
25 December 1994 | David Jason | The complete boatbuilder's book | toolbox | A complete carpenter'smore |
1995
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 January 1995 | Alan Clark | A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell | Piano | more |
8 January 1995 | Patricia Hodge | Harold Pinter | A compendium of the plays ofembroidery | Supply ofmore |
15 January 1995 | Phil Redmond | Charles Dickens | The collected works ofMagnifying glass | more |
22 January 1995 | Dr. Richard Dawkins | Jeeves Omnibus by P. G. Wodehouse | TheComputer (solar-powered) | more |
29 January 1995 | Sir Adrian Cadbury | Samuel Johnson | Dr. Johnson's Lexicographic Works bysculling boat | Fibreglassmore |
19 February 1995 | Jimmy Knapp | Hewlett Johnson | The Socialist Sixth of the World bywhisky | Case of Taliskermore |
26 February 1995 | Christopher Lee | The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White | Set of golf clubs | |
5 March 1995 | Professor Eric Hobsbawm | Canto General by Pablo Neruda | Binoculars | more |
12 March 1995 | Nigel Nicolson | Universe | A Guide to theTelescope | more |
19 March 1995 | Felix Aprahamian | Marcel Proust | Du Cote De Chez Swann bySwiss army knife | more |
2 April 1995 | Nina Bawden | Edward Gibbon | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire byPlain paper, plastic folders and ballpoint pens | more |
9 April 1995 | James Bowman | Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier | Fabergé egg | more |
16 April 1995 | Hugh Grant | King Ottokar's Sceptre by Herge | Supply of handkerchiefs | more |
23 April 1995 | George Lloyd | Piers Plowman (in Middle English) by William Langland | Romney's portrait of Lady Hamilton | more |
30 April 1995 | Pete Waterman | Great Western Railway engines | A history ofHavana cigars and matches | more |
7 May 1995 | Dr. George Carey | Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot | Computer and an empty bottle | more |
14 May 1995 | Neil Simon | How To Swim | harmonica | Largemore |
21 May 1995 | Sir Bernard Ingham | The Times atlas of the world | Colin Cowdrey's bowling machine | more |
28 May 1995 | Marianne Faithfull | Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe | Pen from Asprey's with attached magnifying glass | more |
4 June 1995 | Brian Blessed | In Search of the Miraculous by Peter Ouspensky | Scarf given to him by the Dalai Lama | more |
11 June 1995 | John Lee Hooker | A book with pictures of pretty women | guitar | Hismore |
18 June 1995 | Sir Magdi Yacoub | Pluto's Republic by Sir Peter Meddower | Hammock | more |
25 June 1995 | Jasper Conran | Hoffman | Tales byKrug champagne | Vintagemore |
2 July 1995 | Duke of Westminster | G. A. Henty | Through Russian Snows byTelescope | more |
9 July 1995 | Wendy Richard | Tom Sharpe | Wilt byTapestry to make | more |
10 September 1995 | John Updike | Marcel Proust | The collected works oftent (for luxury, not survival) | Silkenmore |
17 September 1995 | Max Nicholson | The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin | Binoculars | more |
24 September 1995 | Maurice Saatchi | Hamlet (1875 edition) by William Shakespeare | headset | Virtual-realitymore |
1 October 1995 | Jenny Pitman | Veterinary Notes For Horse Owners | Television set | more |
8 October 1995 | Alan Yentob | Michel de Montaigne | Essays byVideo recorder | more |
15 October 1995 | Richard Hoggart | Michel de Montaigne | Essays byFountain pen and paper | more |
22 October 1995 | Don Black | Barbara Ann Kipfer | 14,000 Things To Be Happy About bySnooker table | more |
29 October 1995 | Elizabeth Jane Howard | All the sonatas by Scarlatti | Piano | more |
5 November 1995 | Rt Hon Gillian Shephard MP | The Warning of the Middle Ages by Johan H. Huizinga | Madame Rochas scent | more |
12 November 1995 | Umberto Eco | The New York Phone Book | Laptop computer | more |
19 November 1995 | George Martin | A book on how to build a boat | Electric keyboard | more |
3 December 1995 | Alison Steadman | One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez | lemon flannels (as provided in Chinese restaurants) | Hotmore |
17 December 1995 | Barbara Dickson | Francis Child | English & Scottish Ballads byVery large set of solar-powered hair rollers | more |
24 December 1995 | Petula Clark | Peter Ustinov | Anything bypiano | Hermore |
31 December 1995 | Lady Margaret Tebbit | Hillier's Dictionary of Plants | An endless team of Man Fridays | more |
1996
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
---|---|---|---|---|
7 January 1996 | Christopher Hampton | Marcel Proust | Anything byPen and paper | more |
14 January 1996 | Jimmy McGovern | Ulysses by James Joyce | Haemorrhoid ointment | more |
21 January 1996 | Chili Bouchier | In Tune With The Infinite: Fullness of Peace Power by Ralph Waldo Trine | Make-up kit | more |
28 January 1996 | Julian Barnes | Gustave Flaubert | Letters ofWriting equipment | more |
4 February 1996 | Eve Arnold | Arabian Nights | Dark room, film and camera | more |
11 February 1996 | Susan Hill | The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford | The Barnes Collection (paintings) | more |
18 February 1996 | Professor George Steiner | calendar and appointment book | 500 year aheadComputer | more |
25 February 1996 | Sir Roy Calne | Global Biodiversity by Brian Goombridge | canvas | Paints andmore |
3 March 1996 | Gordon Brown | The Story of Art by Sir Ernst Gombrich | Tennis ball machine and racket | more |
17 March 1996 | Lord Alexander | Lord Wavell | Other Men's Flowers bycanvas | Paints andmore |
24 March 1996 | Kyra Vayne | A culinary book | Peanuts and treats to tame animals and birds | more |
31 March 1996 | Simon Weston | Bernard Cornwell | Sharpe's Eagle byDaily newspapers | more |
7 April 1996 | Dickie Bird | Wisden Cricketers' Almanack | satellite to watch Test matches | TV andmore |
14 April 1996 | Viscount Rothermere | Dante Alighieri | The Divine Comedy byscissors | A pair ofmore |
21 April 1996 | Hanif Kureishi | Sigmund Freud | The Complete Works ofMarijuana seeds | more |
28 April 1996 | Mitsuko Uchida | Leo Tolstoy (in Russian and English) | Anything byPiano | more |
5 May 1996 | Pauline Quirke | Bob Monkhouse | Crying With Laughter byShampoo | more |
12 May 1996 | Hugh Laurie | Italian book (slowly) | A self-learnFamily photo album | more |
19 May 1996 | Janet Holmes à Court | Tourmaline by Randolph Stow | vegemite | Jar ofmore |
26 May 1996 | Michael White | Marcel Proust | Anything byBicycle | more |
2 June 1996 | Gerry Robinson | John Roberts | The History of the World byeasel, oils, brushes) | Painting kit (more |
9 June 1996 | Peggy Mount | Noël Coward | The Diary ofTea in abundance | more |
16 June 1996 | Quentin Crewe | Michel de Montaigne | Essays bycellar from Trinity College, Cambridge | Themore |
18 August 1996 | André Previn | Anton Chekhov | The collected works ofPiano | more |
25 August 1996 | Anita Lasker-Wallfisch | John Roberts | The History of the World byCello | more |
1 September 1996 | Sir Terence Conran | History of the World by H. G. Wells | Endless supply of A4 paper and 4B pencils | more |
8 September 1996 | Professor Colin Blakemore | The Discoverers by Daniel Boorstin | Internet (to receive, not send) | Solar-poweredmore |
15 September 1996 | Kevin Whately | The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie | Northumbrian pipes | more |
22 September 1996 | Fran Landesman | Jay Landesman | Rebel Without Applause and Jaywalking byCannabis seeds | more |
29 September 1996 | Ben Elton | His wedding photo album | The British Museum | more |
6 October 1996 | Lewis Wolpert | David Hume | Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and The Principles of Morals byBicycle | more |
13 October 1996 | Rumer Godden | Edith Sitwell | The Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry bywhisky | A widow's cruise filled withmore |
20 October 1996 | Jack Charlton | Encyclopaedia of How to Survive | Fishing rod | more |
27 October 1996 | Jancis Robinson | Middlemarch by George Eliot | corkscrew | Cellar of wines and amore |
3 November 1996 | Chris Patten | A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking | Bath | more |
10 November 1996 | Sir Laurens Van Der Post | The Golden Bough by James Frazer | Piano | more |
17 November 1996 | Tessa Sanderson | John Roberts | The History of the World byToothbrush and toothpaste | more |
24 November 1996 | Tony Blair | Ivanhoe by Walter Scott | Guitar | more |
1 December 1996 | Bruce Forsyth | The collected works of Omar Khayyam | Sand iron (golf club) | more |
8 December 1996 | Robert Winston | The Koran (in Arabic and English) | telescope | Glass and tools to make amore |
15 December 1996 | Ian Dury | Macmillan Dictionary of Art | Mixing desk (solar-powered) | more |
22 December 1996 | Jennifer Saunders | Freya Stark | Traveller's Prelude byElisabeth Frink | Tribute Heads bymore |
29 December 1996 | Martin Amis | John Milton | The Complete Works ofCable television | more |
1997
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
---|---|---|---|---|
5 January 1997 | John Cleese | Tammy Wynette | Stand By Your Man byMichael Palin - stuffed | more |
26 January 1997 | Irene Thomas | Fidelio by Mozart | Complete score ofTeddy bear stuffed with tea and lily of the valley | more |
2 February 1997 | Gene Wilder | Jean Renoir | The Notebooks of Captain Georges byEarl Grey tea | more |
9 February 1997 | Terry Pratchett | Edible Plants of the South Seas by Emile Massal | The Chrysler Building | more |
16 February 1997 | Mary Benson | Athol Fugard | Unpublished Notes byTelescope | more |
23 February 1997 | Nico Ladenis | Beau Geste by P. C. Wren | Cantona's Manchester United shirt | more |
2 March 1997 | Dr. Susan Greenfield | The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa | curry | Endless supply ofmore |
9 March 1997 | Redmond O'Hanlon | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | insulated Leica binoculars 8 X 20 | Pair of green,more |
16 March 1997 | Nina Campbell | Photograph album | Bed | more |
23 March 1997 | Peter Blake | Lawrence Norfolk | Lempieres' Dictionary byGym | more |
30 March 1997 | Virginia Ironside | Norman Vincent Peale | The Power of Positive Thinking byplaster to make heads of friends | Big bag ofmore |
20 April 1997 | Saeed Jaffrey | The Complete Works of Mirza Ghalib | Black Label and Dom Pérignon | Case ofmore |
27 April 1997 | Andy Hamilton | Frank J. Tipler | The Physics of Immortality byFootball | more |
4 May 1997 | Sir Martin Rees | Gary Larson | Collective cartoons ofJefferson reclining chair | more |
11 May 1997 | David Wynne | Homer | The Iliad and The Odyssey byHarmonica | more |
18 May 1997 | Harry Enfield | Bleak House by Charles Dickens | Beer and a cigarette machine | more |
25 May 1997 | Sian Phillips | The Medical Care of Merchant Seamen by William Louis Wheeler | paper | Pencils andmore |
1 June 1997 | Joanna MacGregor | Arthur Koestler | The Sleep Walkers bySampler to record the noises of the island | more |
8 June 1997 | Benjamin Zephaniah | Shelley | Poetical Works ofLaw of the island (so he could break it) | more |
15 June 1997 | Christina Noble | The Book of Kells | Photo of an Irish cottage | more |
22 June 1997 | Eric Sykes | Ripley's Believe It or Not | Sand wedge and crate of golf balls | more |
24 August 1997 | Iain Banks | Monty Python | The CompletePorsche | Front seat of amore |
31 August 1997 | Cleo Laine | John Dankworth | The Jazz Revolution byPerfume | more |
7 September 1997 | Sir Frank Kermode | Edward Gibbon | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire bySamuel Palmer's painting Moonlit Landscape | more |
14 September 1997 | Ursula Owen | Anton Chekhov | The collected works ofFamily photo album | more |
21 September 1997 | Mike Leigh OBE | One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez | Lavatory and lavatory paper | more |
28 September 1997 | Peter O'Sullevan | Ends and Means by Aldous Huxley | Calvados | Bottle ofmore |
5 October 1997 | Jools Holland | Architecture by Andrea Palladio | The Four Books ofPiano | more |
12 October 1997 | Rose Tremain | A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking | Word processor | more |
19 October 1997 | Richard Rodney Bennett | Edith Sitwell | The Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry byinch circular knitting needle with a point at each end | 6mm 36more |
26 October 1997 | Richard Mabey | The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame | Guitar | more |
2 November 1997 | John Julius Norwich | Edward Gibbon | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire byLaptop computer | more |
9 November 1997 | Anthony Minghella | piano works by Bach | CollectedPiano | more |
23 November 1997 | Thelma Holt | Utopia by Thomas Moore | Rosary beads | more |
30 November 1997 | Lloyd Grossman | Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson | Fishing rod | more |
7 December 1997 | Paula Rego | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Tender is the Night byPencil and paper | more |
14 December 1997 | Chris Haskins | The collected works of Sean O'Casey | Pen and paper | more |
21 December 1997 | Sir Harry Secombe | The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens | Guitar | more |
28 December 1997 | Glenda Jackson MP | Japanese Sand Garden | The History and Creation of aBath | more |
1998
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
---|---|---|---|---|
4 January 1998 | Professor Heinz Wolff | Landscape pictures (with book) | Collection oflandscape pictures | Collection ofmore |
11 January 1998 | Paul Hogarth | The Times Atlas of World History | Solar-powered Apple Mac | more |
18 January 1998 | John Tomlinson | Flora and Fauna of tropical desert island | lenses | A box ofmore |
25 January 1998 | Helena Kennedy QC | Aeneid by Virgil | duvet | Goose downmore |
1 February 1998 | Colin Dexter | A. E. Housman | The collected works ofManicure set | more |
15 February 1998 | Richard Noble | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Guitar | more |
22 February 1998 | David Pountney | Geoffrey Grigson | Anthology: The English Year byCroquet lawn | more |
1 March 1998 | Archie Norman MP | The Complete Angler by Isaac Walton | Jar of Marmite | more |
8 March 1998 | Sir Anthony Dowell | The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame | Sketch pad and paints | more |
15 March 1998 | Ian Stewart | Douglas Hofstadter | Gödel, Escher, Bach bysculpture | Mrs Thatcher pickled in a Damien Hurstmore |
22 March 1998 | Andrew Motion | William Wordsworth | Prelude byPencils and paper | more |
29 March 1998 | Alice Thomas Ellis | Walter de la Mare | Come Hither - An Anthology bysofa | Very comfortablemore |
5 April 1998 | Gavin Bryars | Joseph Needham | Science and Civilisation in China byGravity chair | more |
12 April 1998 | Dame Judi Dench | Ordnance Survey map of the world | Titian | The Man with a Glove, painting bymore |
19 April 1998 | Sir Terry Frost | Blank sheets to write his thoughts on imagination and memory | Mirror | more |
26 April 1998 | Sir Ernest Hall | William Blake | The collected works ofPiano | more |
3 May 1998 | Susan Blackmore | Charles Darwin | Origin of Species bycannabis seeds | Handful ofmore |
10 May 1998 | Antony Gormley | Principle of Hope by Ernst Bloch | mask | Snorkel andmore |
17 May 1998 | Sir David Willcocks | astronomy | Book onKing's College Chapel | more |
24 May 1998 | John Harle | Roger Scruton | The Aesthetics of Music byLute and strings | more |
7 June 1998 | Geoffrey Smith | viticulture, with instructions on how to make wine | History ofvineyard so he can plant his own vines | Bundle of prunings from a goodmore |
14 June 1998 | Bill Kenwright | Everton - The Complete Record by Steve Johnson | Guitar | more |
21 June 1998 | John Bird | The Encyclopaedia of London | Mont Blanc pen, notebook and ink | more |
28 June 1998 | Jack Rosenthal | Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce | Clay for making sculpture | more |
5 July 1998 | Sybille Bedford | Marcel Proust | A la recherche du temps perdu byA French restaurant in full working order | more |
12 July 1998 | Rt Hon Jack Straw MP | Michael Howard | The Franco Prussian War - The German Invasion of France 1870-1871 bySaxophone | more |
19 July 1998 | Howard Brenton | The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer | Champagne | |
26 July 1998 | Chris De Burgh | Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner | Snorkel | more |
2 August 1998 | Ralph Steadman | Mythology | The New La Rousse Encyclopaedia ofChisels | more |
9 August 1998 | David Hempleman Adams | Richard Bach | Jonathan Livingstone Seagull bySaxophone | more |
16 August 1998 | Les Murray | A blank, lined book | Marble four-poster bed | more |
23 August 1998 | Ralph Koltai | French dictionary | Cigars | more |
30 August 1998 | Lucy Gannon | John Carey | The Faber Book of Reportage byJaguar XK8 | more |
1 November 1998 | Paul Daniel | Beautifully bound blank book | Cello and music for Bach's cello suites | more |
8 November 1998 | Joseph Rotblat | Encyclopædia Britannica on CD-ROM | laptop | Solar-poweredmore |
15 November 1998 | Nicole Kidman | Emily Dickinson | Collected Poems ofSun block | more |
22 November 1998 | Bill Morris | Nelson Mandela | Long Walk to Freedom byCricket bat signed by "the three Ws" - Sir Frank Worrell, Everton Weekes and Clyde Walcott | more |
29 November 1998 | Eileen Atkins | Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf | An Atkinson Grimshaw painting | more |
6 December 1998 | John Keegan | The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan | robot | French-speaking manmore |
13 December 1998 | Dick Francis | Men and Horses I Have Known by George Lampton | Waterbed | more |
20 December 1998 | Bob Monkhouse | The Adventures of Alice by Lewis Carroll | Clarinet | more |
25 December 1998 | Sir David Attenborough | Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life by W. B. Lord | Guitar | more |
1999
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
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3 January 1999 | Dave Brubeck | The Spear in the Sand by Raoul C. Faure | Grand piano | more |
10 January 1999 | Clare Hollingworth | History of England by G. M. Trevelyan | Paper and pens (with thick nibs) | more |
17 January 1999 | David Shepherd | Beatrix Potter | Collected works ofvideo player | Wind-upmore |
24 January 1999 | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | chaise longue by a window | Amore |
31 January 1999 | Bill Bryson | Bill Bryson | The Lost Continent byBasketball and hoop with a little hard standing | more |
7 February 1999 | Andras Schiff | Dante Alighieri | The Divine Comedy byPiano | more |
14 February 1999 | Nina Cassian | A. A. Milne | Winnie the Pooh bywhisky | Cigarettes andmore |
21 February 1999 | Maria Ewing | John Donne | Collected Poems ofPiano | more |
28 February 1999 | Richard Curtis | Pop | Guinness Book ofNotting Hill | Pizza Express inmore |
7 March 1999 | Sir Charles Mackerras | German, Italian or Czech | Translation of Shakespeare in eithersuntan lotion and if a cold island - a pillow | If a hot island - a huge bottle ofmore |
14 March 1999 | Fay Maschler | Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons | ouzo | Huge supply ofmore |
21 March 1999 | Rt Hon Mo Mowlam MP | Seamus Heaney | The collected works ofGlobe | more |
28 March 1999 | Luise Rainer | Isaiah Berlin | The Proper Study of Mankind byTo be missed by the people she loves | more |
4 April 1999 | Richard Dunwoody | The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien | Endless supply of ice-cream | |
11 April 1999 | Paco Peña | Anthology of poetry by Jose Bergua | Virtual reality module | more |
18 April 1999 | Ken Loach | Francis Palgrave | Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics byRadio (for football results) | more |
25 April 1999 | Stan Tracey | S. J. Perelman | Crazy Like A Fox byOh, Mr Porter! | The film -more |
2 May 1999 | Helen Bamber | Poet For Poet by Richard McCain | World Service | Radio to listen to themore |
9 May 1999 | Richard Dreyfuss | A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens | Books delivered to the island on a regular basis | more |
16 May 1999 | Michael Green | Sigmund Freud | The Complete Works ofDigital TV | more |
23 May 1999 | Christopher Bruce | French | Teach yourselfSuncream | more |
30 May 1999 | Anthony Howard | Dictionary of National Biography | Magnifying glass | more |
6 June 1999 | Chris Bonington | Sir Winston Churchill | History of the English-Speaking Peoples byPower Book G3 (laptop computer) | more |
13 June 1999 | John Barry | Eternal Echoes by John O'Donohue | Grand piano | more |
20 June 1999 | James Dyson | Olive: The Life and Love of a Noble Fruit by Mort Rosenslum | Olive oil | more |
27 June 1999 | Ann Widdecombe | Thomas Gray | Collected Poems ofshower | Hotmore |
4 July 1999 | Igor Aleksander | Richard Gregory | Companions to the Mind byvirtual reality London Symphony Orchestra so he can conduct it | Amore |
11 July 1999 | Paddy Moloney | Irish textbook currently in The Hague) | The Book of Lempster (oldTin whistle | more |
18 July 1999 | Martin Pipe | Horse Management by R. S. Timmis | Cheltenham race course | Winning post frommore |
25 July 1999 | Rod Steiger | Complete book of poetry by e e cummings | Self-contained external electric fan | more |
1 August 1999 | Rick Stein | Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy | Thai fish sauce | more |
8 August 1999 | Patricia Routledge | John Donne | The collected works oftea | Tea service withmore |
15 August 1999 | Sir Roger Norrington | Thomas Hardy | The Complete Works ofChocolate | more |
22 August 1999 | Rita Dove | One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez | Ballroom and robotic dance instructor | more |
29 August 1999 | Rolf Harris | Norman Lindsay | The Magic Pudding byChisel for sculpting | more |
31 October 1999 | Ralph Fiennes | Marcel Proust | A la recherche du temps perdu byPen and limited supplies of ink and paper | more |
7 November 1999 | Willard White | The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale | Seeds | more |
19 November 1999 | William Gibson | Jorge Luis Borges | The Complete Works ofJunk yard | more |
21 November 1999 | Clarissa Dickson Wright | The Complete Works of Saki | Wind-up radio | more |
28 November 1999 | Warren Mitchell | Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian | Organ (from the Royal Albert Hall) | more |
5 December 1999 | Sir Richard Sykes | Charles Darwin | Origin of Species byTelescope | more |
12 December 1999 | Oz Clarke | Elizabeth David | French Provincial Cookery bymemory | Hismore |
19 December 1999 | Michael Nyman | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy byToilet | more |
24 December 1999 | Michael Crawford | self-sufficiency by John Seymour | The complete book ofPen and paper | more |
31 December 1999 | Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber | Simon Jenkins | England's Thousand Best Churches byHerb garden | more |
2000
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
---|---|---|---|---|
9 January 2000 | Dr. Jane Goodall | The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien | Pencil and paper | more |
16 January 2000 | Ian McEwan | Ulysses by James Joyce | leather hand-stitched hiking boots | Italianmore |
23 January 2000 | Neil Jordan | Marcel Proust | A la recherche du temps perdu byTypewriter | more |
30 January 2000 | Peter Melchett | Field guide to the island | mask | Snorkel andmore |
6 February 2000 | Simon Callow | Dictionary | trimmer | Nose hairmore |
13 February 2000 | Professor Stuart Hall | Henry James | Portrait of a Lady byPiano | more |
20 February 2000 | Michael Holroyd | Hugh Kingsmill) | The High Hill of the Muses (anthology byWaterbed | more |
27 February 2000 | Sheila Hancock | Marcel Proust | Anything byGrand piano (and music scores) | more |
5 March 2000 | Robert McCrum | Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome | St. John's Wort | more |
12 March 2000 | Colin Montgomerie | Michael Crichton | Anything byNo luxury chosen | more |
19 March 2000 | Al Alvarez | Sigmund Freud | Interpretation of Dreams bypoker game software | Laptop computer withmore |
26 March 2000 | Adrian Noble | The Art of Memory by Frances A Yates | Wine | more |
2 April 2000 | Harold Evans | American Civil War by Shelby Foote | History of theSilk pyjamas | more |
9 April 2000 | Claire Tomalin | The Diary of Samuel Pepys | Garden | more |
16 April 2000 | Sir Anthony Caro | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Glue | more |
23 April 2000 | Leonard Slatkin | Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin | Wine | more |
30 April 2000 | Sir Peter Bonfield | celestial navigation | A book onWindsurfer | more |
7 May 2000 | Sir John Mills | The Warden by Anthony Trollope | piano | Hismore |
14 May 2000 | Kathleen Turner | Emma by Jane Austen | Roses | more |
21 May 2000 | Dame Norma Major | Dorothy L. Sayers | Nine Tailors bySolar laptop | more |
28 May 2000 | John Bird | Wallace Stevens | The collected works of2,000 soft loo rolls | more |
4 June 2000 | Professor Geza Vermes | The Complete Works of Flavius Josephus | desk | Comfortable armchair/more |
11 June 2000 | Clive James | Enrico Caruso | My Method of Singing byKaraoke piano | more |
18 June 2000 | Donald Sutherland | Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuckman | Case of really good vintage wine | more |
25 June 2000 | Max Perutz | Charles Darwin | Origin of Species bySkis | more |
2 July 2000 | Peter Nichols | diary (which he has kept since he was 18, to relive his life since 1945) | HisCyanide tablet (if he can't a tower and telescope, or a full-size snooker table) | more |
9 July 2000 | Alan Parker | A giant photo album of his children and grandchildren which goes back over 20 years | pads | Watercolour paint box plus brush andmore |
16 July 2000 | Michael Portillo | Alain de Botton | Proust: Time Regained bylaptop | Solar-poweredmore |
23 July 2000 | Sir Roger Penrose | Michael Frayn | The biggest book bypiano | 19-notemore |
30 July 2000 | General Sir Charles Guthrie | Lady Longford | Volume 1 of biography of the Duke of Wellington - Year of the Sword bySurfboard | more |
6 August 2000 | Sir Norman Wisdom | Reach for the Skies by Sir Douglas Bader | stew with two dumplings | Pot ofmore |
13 August 2000 | Robert Swan | The Times atlas - largest available so he can see where he has been (168 countries so far) | Huge copy ofAn accountancy course | more |
20 August 2000 | Christopher Lloyd | Gustave Flaubert | Letters ofSyndicate whisky | more |
27 August 2000 | Ronald Harwood | Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh | bathroom | Hismore |
5 November 2000 | J K Rowling | SAS Survival Guide | Pen and unlimited paper | more |
19 November 2000 | Des Lynam | Medicine | Encyclopaedia of NaturalDrum kit | more |
26 November 2000 | Albie Sachs | Stendhal | Charterhouse of Parma byaftershave | Little bottle ofmore |
3 December 2000 | Tina Brown | Middlemarch by George Eliot | Rollercoaster | more |
10 December 2000 | Tim Smit | Book with plain pages | Piano | more |
17 December 2000 | Richard Briers | Great Expectations by Charles Dickens | Chardonnay | Huge supply ofmore |
24 December 2000 | Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell | The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | sketch and some paper and pens | Book on how tomore |
26 December 2000 | Norman Painting | - | - | more |
31 December 2000 | Stephen Sondheim | E. B. White | The collected works ofPiano | more |
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