| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More
info | | 3 January 1981}} | Robin|Cousins}} | Shōgun by James Clavell | Marzipan | more |
| 10 January 1981}} | John|Fowles}} | Dictionary of National Biography | Field glasses | more |
| 17 January 1981}} | HRH Princess|Margaret|Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon}} | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Piano | more |
| 24 January 1981}} | Joan|Plowright}} | Three novels by Aldous Huxley | Piano | more |
| 31 January 1981}} | Jeffrey|Archer}} | Reunion|Reunion by Fred Uhlman}} | Plasticine model of Roy Plomley and a pin | more |
| 7 February 1981}} | Mary|O'Hara}} | Lord of the Rings|The Lord of the Rings}} by J. R. R. Tolkien | Tennis practice equipment | more |
| 14 February 1981}} | David|Broome}} | Collected Speeches by Winston Churchill | Wine | more |
| 21 February 1981}} | Frederic|Raphael}} | Bilingual edition of poetry by Giorgos Seferis | Painting Materials | more |
| 28 February 1981}} | Carla|Lane}} | Dictionary of quotations | French Shampoo | more |
| 7 March 1981}} | Daniel|Massey|dab=actor}} | Ego|Ego by James Agate}} | Wine | more |
| 14 March 1981}} | Peter|Nichols}} | Collected essays by George Orwell | Vibraphone | more |
| 21 March 1981}} | Russell|Harty}} | History of Craven|A History of Craven by Thomas Dunham Whitaker}} | Flagpole and Union Jack | more |
| 28 March 1981}} | Patricia|Ruanne}} | Lord of the Rings|The Lord of the Rings}} by J. R. R. Tolkien | Sunglasses | more |
| 4 April 1981}} | Gary|Glitter}} | Times Concise Atlas | Elastoplast | more |
| 11 April 1981}} | Sir Fitzroy|Maclean|Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet}} | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Writing materials | more |
| 18 April 1981}} | Princess Grace of|Monaco|Grace Kelly}} | Plays by George Kelly | Pillow | more |
| 25 April 1981}} | Stewart|Granger}} | Collected works by Ernest Hemingway | Gold statuette of Winston Churchill | more |
| 2 May 1981}} | Sir Frederick|Ashton|Frederick Ashton}} | In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust | Cards | more |
| 9 May 1981}} | Buddy|Rich}} | Story of O|The Story of O}} by Pauline Réage | Ferrari | more |
| 16 May 1981}} | John|Gielgud}} | In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust | more |
| 23 May 1981}} | Edmund|Rubbra}} | Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne | Music manuscript paper | more |
| 30 May 1981}} | Eric|Shilling}} | Collin's Albatross Book of Verse by Louis Untermeyer | Astronomical telescope | more |
| 6 June 1981}} | William|Whitelaw|William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw}} | World That Fred Made|The World That Fred Made by Bernard Darwin}} | Bath with a hot water system | more |
| 13 June 1981}} | Richard|Leakey}} | Touch the Earth by T. C. McLuhan | Pillow | more |
| 20 June 1981}} | Giuseppe|Di Stefano}} | Maria|Maria by Arianna Stassinopoulos}} | Roulette table | more |
| 27 June 1981}} | Morris|West}} | Meditations Upon Our Human Condition by John Donne | Pencils and paper | more |
| 4 July 1981}} | Gloria|Swanson}} | Prophet|The Prophet}} by Kahlil Gibran | Telephone | more |
| 11 July 1981}} | Gillian|Lynne}} | French language course | Eyelash curler | more |
| 18 July 1981}} | Carl|Sagan}} | Boy Scout handbook | Reflecting telescope | more |
| 25 July 1981}} | Roger|Moore}} | Noble House by James Clavell | Video player and films of family | more |
| 1 August 1981}} | Julian|Lloyd Webber}} | History of Leyton Orient F.C. | Cello | more |
| 8 August 1981}} | Terry|Hands}} | Dictionary | Cello | more |
| 15 August 1981}} | Sebastian|Coe}} | Penguin Dorothy Parker|The Penguin Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker}} | Bed | more |
| 22 August 1981}} | Paul|Eddington}} | Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross | Boathouse at Dawn by Ivon Hitchens | more |
| 29 August 1981}} | Frank|Oz}} | Complete works by Emily Dickinson | Clean sheets | more |
| 5 September 1981}} | Alan|Jones|dab=racing driver}} | Eagle in the Sky by Wilbur Smith | Australian lager | more |
| 12 September 1981}} | Jessye|Norman}} | Diary of Virginia Woolf|The Diary of Virginia Woolf}} | Perrier water | more |
| 19 September 1981}} | Malcolm|Muggeridge}} | Writings by Samuel Johnson | Beehive | more |
| 26 September 1981}} | James|Mason}} | Ada by Vladimir Nabokov | Guitar | more |
| 3 October 1981}} | Beaux Arts Trio | Books about gardening, painting and boat handling | Violin and strings and piano | more |
| 10 October 1981}} | Montserrat|Caballé}} | Record box | more |
| 17 October 1981}} | Elspeth|Huxley}} | Novels by P. G. Wodehouse | Camera and film | more |
| 24 October 1981}} | Joseph|Cotten}} | Gardening manual | Boat building book | more |
| 31 October 1981}} | Patrick|Lichfield}} | Book with blank cork pages | Astronomical telescope | more |
| 7 November 1981}} | Glyn|Daniel}} | Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | Wine | more |
| 14 November 1981}} | James|Clavell}} | Koran | more |
| 21 November 1981}} | Diana|Dors}} | Her autobiography | Chocolates | more |
| 28 November 1981}} | Douglas|Bader}} | Complete works by Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Sand iron and golf balls | more |
| 5 December 1981}} | Alan|Howard}} | Piano manual | Piano | more |
| 12 December 1981}} | Jack|Higgins}} | Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot | Writing materials | more |
| 19 December 1981}} | Helene|Hanff}} | Memoirs by Louis de Rouvroy | Scrabble | more |
| 26 December 1981}} | George|Lascelles|George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood}} | Anthology of poetry | Typewriter | more |
| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More
info | | 2 January 1982}} | Trevor Brooking | Crosswords|Crossword puzzles and pencils}} | Golf clubs and balls | more |
| 9 January 1982}} | Martin Gilbert | The document volumes of the Churchill biography by Martin Gilbert | Drawings of his two children | more |
| 16 January 1982}} | Angela Rippon | Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen | Watercolours. brushes and paper | more |
| 23 January 1982}} | Frankie Howerd | David Copperfield by Charles Dickens | Cross given to him by his mother | more |
| 30 January 1982}} | Paul McCartney | Linda's Pictures by Linda McCartney | Guitar | more |
| 6 February 1982}} | Professor J K Galbraith|Professor J K Galbraith}} | Anthology|Personally compiled anthology}} | Typewriter and paper | more |
| 13 February 1982}} | Sir Christopher Leaver|Sir Christopher Leaver}} | Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians | Wine cellar | more |
| 20 February 1982}} | Petula Clark | Short stories of John Steinbeck|The short stories of John Steinbeck}} | Piano | more |
| 27 February 1982}} | John Osborne | Holy Living and Holy Dying by Jeremy Taylor | Piano and an instruction book | more |
| 6 March 1982}} | Dame Eva Turner | Inferno by Dante Alighieri | Castanets | more |
| 13 March 1982}} | George Chisholm | The novels of P G Wodehouse | Engraved glass and supply of bitter lemon | more |
| 20 March 1982}} | Lord Bernard Miles|Lord Bernard Miles}} | The Odyssey by Homer | Box of notebooks, pencils and sharpeners | more |
| 27 March 1982}} | Sir William Walton | The Education of a Gardener by Russell Page | Funicular for hills | more |
| 3 April 1982}} | Richard Armstrong | Piano Sonatas by Beethoven | Piano | more |
| 10 April 1982}} | Julia McKenzie | Act One by Moss Hart | Painting materials | more |
| 17 April 1982}} | Brian Aldiss | Rasselas by Dr Samuel Johnson | Time machine | more |
| 24 April 1982}} | Dorothy Dunnett | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon | Guitar | more |
| 1 May 1982}} | Jenny Agutter | Oxford Book of English Verse | Oriental rug | more |
| 8 May 1982}} | Lucia Popp | The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann | Teddy bear | more |
| 15 May 1982}} | Julian Symons | Bleak House by Charles Dickens | Couch | more |
| 22 May 1982}} | Marti Webb | Illustrated dictionary | Piano | more |
| 29 May 1982}} | Desmond Hawkins | Field guide to the birds of the island | Binoculars | more |
| 5 June 1982}} | Delia Smith | The autobiography of Saint Therese of Lisieux | Writing materials | more |
| 12 June 1982}} | Sir Anton Dolin | Friends and Memories by Sir Anton Dolin | Electric razor | more |
| 19 June 1982}} | Eric Newby | Dictionary of National Biography | Whisky | more |
| 26 June 1982}} | Joss Ackland | Dictionary | Video player with cassettes of old movies | more |
| 3 July 1982}} | John Mortimer | Oxford Book of English Verse | Bath | more |
| 10 July 1982}} | Captain Jacques Cousteau|Captain Jacques Cousteau}} | Essays by Michel de Montaigne | Stone from the stomach of a fossilised dinosaur | more |
| 17 July 1982}} | Pamela Stephenson | Buddhist scripture by Dama Pada | Television set with satellite link-up | more |
| 24 July 1982}} | Lyall Watson | Pears Cyclopaedia | Film projector|Film projector and 20 western films}} | more |
| 31 July 1982}} | George Martin | Manual on practical engineering | Clavichord | more |
| 7 August 1982}} | Dame Janet Baker | Persuasion by Jane Austen | Pencils and paper | more |
| 14 August 1982}} | Donald Sinden | A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method by Sir Banister Fletcher | His favourite picture in the Walker Art Gallery | more |
| 21 August 1982}} | Carl Davis | The short stories of Anton Chekhov | Shampoo | more |
| 28 August 1982}} | Duke and Duchess of Devonshire|Duke and Duchess of Devonshire}} | The books of Beatrix Potter and Chambers' Biographical Dictionary | New potatoes and aftershave | more |
| 4 September 1982}} | Claire Bloom | A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust | Coffee and espresso machine | more |
| 11 September 1982}} | James Loughran | Comprehensive world airways timetable | Drawing and painting equipment | more |
| 18 September 1982}} | Carlo Curley | Cookery book by Julia Child | Pipe organ | more |
| 25 September 1982}} | Wilbury Smith|Wilbur Smith}} | The Oxford English Dictionary | Brass bedstead and feather mattress | more |
| 2 October 1982}} | David Lloyd Jones | Journal|The Journal of Edmond Goncourt}} | more |
| 9 October 1982}} | N.Busch, J.Kuchmy, M.Parry, M.Wilson | - | - | more |
| 16 October 1982}} | Geoffrey Grigson | The Oxford English Dictionary | Pate de foie gras | more |
| 23 October 1982}} | Mike Harding | The New Oxford Book of English Verse | Ordnance Survey maps and set of books about the Fells | more |
| 30 October 1982}} | Lord Tonypandy|Lord Tonypandy}} | The Methodist hymn book | Writing materials | more |
| 6 November 1982}} | Thomas Allen | Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë | Golf clubs and balls | more |
| 13 November 1982}} | Rosamond Lehmann | Letters|The letters of the Marquise de Sevigne}} | Writing materials | more |
| 20 November 1982}} | P D James | Middlemarch by George Eliot | Claret | more |
| 27 November 1982}} | Helen Mirren | The Bhagavad Gita | Silk underwear | more |
| 4 December 1982}} | Alan Price | The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame | Piano | more |
| 18 December 1982}} | Gyorgy Ligeti | Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll | The Garden Of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch | more |
| 25 December 1982}} | Mary Ellis | Encyclopaedia | Writing materials | more |
| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More
info | | 1 January 1983}} | Rachel Billington | Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy | Writing materials | more |
| 8 January 1983}} | Steve Davis | The Throwback and Wilt by Tom Sharpe | Snooker table | more |
| 15 January 1983}} | Baroness Maria von Trapp | True funny stories in German | Statue of Madonna and Child, 17th Century | more |
| 22 January 1983}} | Gwyneth Jones | The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran | Piano with bath salts | more |
| 29 January 1983}} | Tim Severin | Pax Britannica by Jan Morris | Herb garden | more |
| 5 February 1983}} | Beryl Reid | Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor | Silk garment | more |
| 12 February 1983}} | Zandra Rhodes | Mrs Beeton's Household Management | Sketchbook, pens and pencils|Sketchbook, pens and pencils}} | more |
| 19 February 1983}} | James Ivory | A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust | Shower with hot water | more |
| 26 February 1983}} | Tom Keating | Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari | Mattock | more |
| 5 March 1983}} | Kenneth Macmillan | The Rack by A E Ellis | Godiva chocolates from Belgium | more |
| 12 March 1983}} | Douglas Reeman | The Admiralty Seamanship Manual | Orchid-growing kit|Orchid-growing kit}} | more |
| 19 March 1983}} | Michael Wood|Michael Wood}} | Other Men's Flowers by Lord Wavell | Pair of field glasses | more |
| 26 March 1983}} | Jan Morris | Her own book on Venice | Astronomical telescope with 'Catalogue of Nebulae' | more |
| 2 April 1983}} | James Fox | Colour reproduction of Renaissance artists | Watercolour equipment | more |
| 9 April 1983}} | Ruggiero Ricci | The letters of Beethoven | The Plowden Guarneri violin | more |
| 16 April 1983}} | Geoffrey Moorhouse | The Dictionary of National Biography | Recording of curlews and Indian spices | more |
| 23 April 1983}} | Max Boyce | I Can't Stay Long by Laurie Lee | Oil-painting equipment | more |
| 30 April 1983}} | A N Wilson | The Golden Treasury|The Golden Treasuary by Francis Palgrave}} | Bed and blankets | more |
| 7 May 1983}} | Arthur English | Britain's Heritage by John Julius Norwich | Weekend in Paris | more |
| 14 May 1983}} | Sir Alan King-Hamilton|Alan King-Hamilton}} | Barclay's World of Cricket by Jim Swanton | Television set | more |
| 21 May 1983}} | Terry Wogan | His favourite books by P G Wodehouse | Vodka | more |
| 28 May 1983}} | Sinead Cusack|Sinéad Cusack}} | The novels of John Le Carre | Writing materials | more |
| 4 June 1983}} | Raymond Briggs | The Complete Works of Beachcomber | Billiard table with snooker balls and cue | more |
| 11 June 1983}} | Sir Peter Pears | A book by E M Forster | Painting from his collection | more |
| 18 June 1983}} | Fleur Cowles | Blank paper | Painting materials | more |
| 25 June 1983}} | Peter Maxwell Davies | Ulysses by James Joyce | Music manuscript paper and pens | more |
| 2 July 1983}} | Terry Jones | The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer | Pencil and paper | more |
| 9 July 1983}} | Julian Bream | more |
| 16 July 1983}} | Sir John Pritchard | Lucia novels by E F Benson | Italian wine | more |
| 23 July 1983}} | John Gunter | The Complete Works of Flann O'Brien | More William Walton records | more |
| 30 July 1983}} | Keith Waterhouse | A year's supply of the Exchange & Mart | Solar-powered television, video and eight films | more |
| 6 August 1983}} | Sir Frederick Gibberd | Scrapbook of poetry | Bottle of sleeping tablets | more |
| 13 August 1983}} | Peter Bull | Brideshead Revisited (in Greek) by Evelyn Waugh | Crystal ball | more |
| 20 August 1983}} | Malcolm Bradbury | If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino | Word processor | more |
| 27 August 1983}} | Cindy Buxton and Annie Price | A book on explorers and Johnny Livingstone's Seagull by Richard Bach | Cow and a box of soap | more |
| 3 September 1983}} | Paul Jones | Political works and music criticism by George Bernard Shaw | Harmonica | more |
| 10 September 1983}} | Charlotte Lamb | Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen | Typewriter and paper | more |
| 17 September 1983}} | Lionel Hampton | Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy | Tape recorder | more |
| 24 September 1983}} | Ian Richardson | Book of quotations | Large supply of paper and pencils | more |
| 1 October 1983}} | Rosemary Sutcliff | Kim by Rudyard Kipling | Flowers delivered daily by bottle | more |
| 8 October 1983}} | Mollie Harris | The five-volume works by Anthony Wood | Union Jack | more |
| 15 October 1983}} | Topol|Topol}} | Great Treasury of Western Thought by Mortimer J Adler | Artist's kit | more |
| 22 October 1983}} | Linda Esther Gray | Anthology of poetry | Garlic, chocolate and wine | more |
| 29 October 1983}} | Sir Ranulph Fiennes | The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations | Tube of Antisan cream | more |
| 5 November 1983}} | Shirley MacLaine | Dictionary and hexalingual thesaurus | Blank paper | more |
| 12 November 1983}} | Sir Peter Hall|Sir Peter Hall}} | The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians | Photograph of his children | more |
| 19 November 1983}} | Sir Hugh Greene | The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Portable typewriter and lots of paper | more |
| 26 November 1983}} | Thomas Keneally | Oxford Book of 20th Century English Verse by Philip Larkin | Collection of The Times crosswords | more |
| 3 December 1983}} | Marvin Hamlisch | Phone book | Picture of his mother when she was 17 | more |
| 10 December 1983}} | John Piper | The Complete Works of William Blake | Pianola | more |
| 17 December 1983}} | James Stewart | Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe | Family photo album | more |
| 31 December 1983}} | M M Kaye | Indian Tales by Rudyard Kipling | Writer's kitmore |
| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More
info | | 7 January 1984}} | Bertice Reading | The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran | King-size brass bed with feather mattress|King size brass bed with mattress}} | more |
| 14 January 1984}} | David Gower | Compendium of wines | Video cassettes of Rumpole of the Bailey | more |
| 21 January 1984}} | Quentin Crewe | Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | Potter's wheel | more |
| 28 January 1984}} | HRH Princess Michael of Kent | Histories by Herodotus | Cat | more |
| 4 February 1984}} | Stubby Kaye | His diary | Hard hat | more |
| 11 February 1984}} | Lord Elwyn-Jones | English Social History by G M Trevelyan | Comic collage by Pearl Binder | more |
| 18 February 1984}} | Woodu Herman|Woody Herman}} | Music is My Mistress by Duke Ellington | Jaguar XJ6 | more |
| 25 February 1984}} | Michael York | No book chosen | Telescope | more |
| 3 March 1984}} | Gerald Priestland | The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins | Air conditioner | more |
| 10 March 1984}} | Don McCullin | One year of issues of The Times | Mirror | more |
| 17 March 1984}} | Michael Quinn | Le Repertoire de la Cuisine by Louis Saulnier | Pair of waterwings | more |
| 24 March 1984}} | Honest Ed Mirvish | Complete Webster's English Dictionary | Barbecue | more |
| 31 March 1984}} | Paul Tortelier | The Cathedrals of France by Auguste Rodin | Photograph of his wife | more |
| 7 April 1984}} | Christopher Reeve | The Inner Reality by Paul Brunton | Scuba-diving equipment | more |
| 14 April 1984}} | Lucy Irvine | Language Made Plain by Anthony Burgess | Mosquito coils and an apple pip | more |
| 21 April 1984}} | David Lodge | Ulysses by James Joyce | Nymph in a Landscape by Palma Vecchio | more |
| 28 April 1984}} | Leo McKern | Encycloapedia|Encyclopaedia}} | Watercolours and hot-pressed paper | more |
| 5 May 1984}} | Rosalind Plowright | The collected works of William Wordsworth | Windsurfer | more |
| 12 May 1984}} | Hugh Johnson | The Complete Works of P G Wodehouse | Writing materials and lots of bottles | more |
| 30 June 1984}} | Zubin Mehta | The Gathas by Zarathustra | Van Eyck's Triptych from Ghent Cathedral | more |
| 7 July 1984}} | Lord Rothschild|Lord Rothschild}} | Book on pure mathematics | Pad of A4 paper | more |
| 14 July 1984}} | Vlado Perlemuter | The Complete Plays of Moliere | Painting of Louvre | more |
| 21 July 1984}} | Natalia Makarova | The poetry of Aleksandr Pushkin | Wine – Chateau Margot 1961 | more |
| 28 July 1984}} | Sir Alfred Ayer | The Life of Boswell and A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides|The Life of Johnson and A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell}} | Le Moulin de la Galette by Renoir | more |
| 4 August 1984}} | Gayatri Devi | Omnibus of books by James Heriot | Can of insect repellent | more |
| 11 August 1984}} | Ron Goodwin | The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran | Tuba | more |
| 18 August 1984}} | William Rushton|William Rushton}} | Anthology by G K Chesterton | Piano | more |
| 25 August 1984}} | Ved Mehta | 11th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica | No luxury chosen | more |
| 1 September 1984}} | George Abbott | Encyclopaedia | Writing paper | more |
| 8 September 1984}} | Catherine Cookson | Her own autobiography | Piano | more |
| 15 September 1984}} | Gerry Cottle | I Love You, Honey, but the Season's Over by Connie Clausen | Juggling clubs | more |
| 22 September 1984}} | Alfred Eisenstadt | A book of quotations | Camera | more |
| 29 September 1984}} | John Hurt | The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll | Pillow | more |
| 6 October 1984}} | John Surman | Set of Wisden | Vat of Bordeaux wine | more |
| 19 October 1984}} | Michael Ffolkes | - | - | more |
| 20 October 1984}} | Jonathan Lynn | Collection of Jeeves & Wooster novels by P G Wodehouse | Pen and paper | more |
| 27 October 1984}} | David Rendall | The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran | Wine – Chateau Lascombes 1966 | more |
| 3 November 1984}} | Tom Sharpe | The Oxford Book of English Verse|Oxford Book of English Verse}} | Ton of snuff | more |
| 10 November 1984}} | Vernon Handley | The Principles of Art by R G Collingwood | Sodastream and gas cylinders | more |
| 17 November 1984}} | David Puttnam | The Wisden Anthology of Cricket by Benny Green | Goose down pillow | more |
| 24 November 1984}} | Robin Hanbury-Tenison | The Oxford Companion to English Literature | Cask of claret | more |
| 1 December 1984}} | Miklos Rozsa | Collected Poems of Endre Ady | Manuscript paper and pens | more |
| 8 December 1984}} | Sir John Burgh | Encyclopædia Britannica | Transistor radio | more |
| 15 December 1984}} | Ray Cooney | more |
| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More
info | | 5 January 1986}} | Alan Parker | The collected poems of Sir John Betjeman | Suntan lotion|Suntan lotion}} | more |
| 12 January 1986}} | Nigel Kennedy | Wisden Almanack | Violin | more |
| 19 January 1986}} | Maureen Lipman | The collected works of Jane Austen | Parking meter and caravan|A parking meter and caravan}} | more |
| 26 January 1986}} | Roy Hattersley | Shakespearean Tragedy by A. C. Bradley | Boy writer's set | more |
| 2 February 1986}} | Dennis Taylor | A joke book | Limitless supply of yoghurt | more |
| 9 February 1986}} | Bruce Oldfield | The Destiny of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman by J. P. Donleavy | Cigarettes | more |
| 16 February 1986}} | Ben Kingsley | Unknown | Telescope | more |
| 23 February 1986}} | Selina Scott | Hawk Moon by Sam Shepard | Hairbrush | more |
| 2 March 1986}} | John Dankworth | The Exchange & Mart | Solar-powered synthesizer | more |
| 9 March 1986}} | Beryl Bainbridge | The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard | Old-fashioned diary with pens | more |
| 16 March 1986}} | Ron Pickering | The Guinness Book of Records | Typewriter | more |
| 23 March 1986}} | Rt Hon Shirley Williams | The collected poems of W. B. Yeats | Computer | more |
| 30 March 1986}} | Jane Glover | The Letters of Virginia Woolf | Bathroom with lots of full cupboards | more |
| 6 April 1986}} | Arthur Hailey | Webster's International Dictionary | Hot water | more |
| 25 May 1986}} | Bobby Robson | Roget's Thesaurus | Set of golf clubs and endless supply of balls | more |
| 1 June 1986}} | Elton John | Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice | Telephone | more |
| 8 June 1986}} | Ismail Merchant | The works of E. M. Forster, P. D. James and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Cooking range | more |
| 15 June 1986}} | Max Hastings | The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame | Word processor linked to a Fleet Street newspaper | more |
| 22 June 1986}} | Jackie Stewart | The Guinness Book of Records | Blank book and pen | more |
| 29 June 1986}} | Anne-Sophie Mutter | Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe | Stradivarius violin | more |
| 6 July 1986}} | Brian Redhead | A commentary on the Bible by Arthur Pink | Taj Mahal | more |
| 13 July 1986}} | Sir David Wilson|Sir David Wilson}} | The Diary of Samuel Pepys | Refrigerator | more |
| 20 July 1986}} | Sir Geoffrey Howe | The Good Food Guide | Computer bridge game | more |
| 27 July 1986}} | Roger Vadim | Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand Céline | Chess computer | more |
| 3 August 1986}} | Norman Lewis | The Histories|The Histories by Herodotus}} | Spirit stove | more |
| 10 August 1986}} | Virginia Holgate | A do-it-yourself manual | Never-ending supply of smoked salmon | more |
| 17 August 1986}} | Jane Lapotaire | The I Ching | Pencils and paper | more |
| 24 August 1986}} | Stan Barstow | A La Reherche du Temps Perdu|À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust}} | Paper and pens | more |
| 31 August 1986}} | Auberon Waugh | Other Men's Flowers by Lord Wavell | Vine | more |
| 7 September 1986}} | Andrew Davis | Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift | Collection of Apostle spoons | more |
| 14 September 1986}} | James Herbert | The History of Mr Polly|Anthology including The History of Mr Polly by H. G. Wells}} | Grand piano | more |
| 21 September 1986}} | Suzi Quatro | Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand | Piano | more |
| 28 September 1986}} | Richard Condon | Boy Scout annual | Calendar watch | more |
| 5 October 1986}} | Sir Ian MacGregor|Sir Ian MacGregor}} | Encyclopædia Britannica | Thermos jug | more |
| 12 October 1986}} | Sir Fred Hoyle | Handbook of physics | Portable telescope | more |
| 19 October 1986}} | Phil Edmonds | Book on flora and fauna of the island | Portable telescope|Royal Jamaica cigars}} | more |
| 26 October 1986}} | Albert Roux and Michel Roux | Cookery books | Books on how to manage people and ivory carving | more |
| 2 November 1986}} | Jeremy Irons | A construction manual | Camera and film | more |
| 9 November 1986}} | Kingsley Amis | Oxford English Dictionary | Scotch whisky | more |
| 16 November 1986}} | Hal Prince | Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe | Bouillabaisse with langouste and wine | more |
| 23 November 1986}} | John Ridgway | The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame | Shaving kit | more |
| 30 November 1986}} | Nigel Hawthorne | Teach yourself French | Pencils and paper | more |
| 7 December 1986}} | Jackie Collins | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald | Photograph of her family | more |
| 14 December 1986}} | Benny Green | A Quartet of Comedies by H. G. Wells | Saxophone | more |
| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More
info | | 4 January 1987}} | Tony Bennett | Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Suit | more |
| 11 January 1987}} | James Prior | Times Atlas of the World | Golf clubs and balls | more |
| 18 January 1987}} | Jeremy Lloyd | Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome | Guitar | more |
| 25 January 1987}} | Baroness Ryder of Warsaw | The autobiography of Wilfred Owen | Pillow | more |
| 1 February 1987}} | Peter Fluck and Roger Law | My Last Breath by Luis Buñuel | Margaret Thatcher's resignation speech | more |
| 8 February 1987}} | Victoria Wood | The collected works of Arthur Marshall | Cinema organ | more |
| 15 February 1987}} | Sir Michael Hordern | History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill | Elm tree | more |
| 22 February 1987}} | Ken Russell | The Prelude by William Wordsworth | Quart of brandy | more |
| 1 March 1987}} | Sir Nicholas Goodison|Sir Nicholas Goodison}} | Unknown | Unknown | more |
| 8 March 1987}} | Johnny Mathis | Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell | Golf bag | more |
| 15 March 1987}} | Dora Bryan | Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome | Stuffed dog | more |
| 22 March 1987}} | David Penhaligon | A cricketing Almanack | 30 foot of steel | more |
| 29 March 1987}} | Peter Alliss | History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill | Sand-yacht | more |
| 5 April 1987}} | Anthony Andrews | The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde|The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde}} | Piano | more |
| 12 April 1987}} | Julian Critchley | An Omelette and a Glass of Wine|An Omelette and a Glass of Wine by Elizabeth David}} | Case of wine | more |
| 19 April 1987}} | Michael Bogdanov | Pocket Wine Book 1987 by Hugh Johnson | 50-pound jar of Marmite | more |
| 26 April 1987}} | Frank Bough | Pocket Wine Book 1987|Barclays World of Cricket by Jim Swanton}} | Contact lenses | more |
| 28 June 1987}} | Terence Stamp | The Joy of Cooking | Duvet | more |
| 5 July 1987}} | Robert Maxwell | A book on Plato | Chess computer game | more |
| 12 July 1987}} | Elaine Paige | The Complete Works of Charles Dickens | Piano | more |
| 19 July 1987}} | Lucinda Green | Unknown | Unknown | more |
| 26 July 1987}} | Kenneth Williams | The Golden Treasury by Francis Palgrave | Crate of Cologne | more |
| 2 August 1987}} | Maya Angelou | The Negro Caravan | Painting of Kumasi Market by John T. Biggers | more |
| 9 August 1987}} | Frances Edmonds | Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams}} | Bollinger '69 | more |
| 16 August 1987}} | Susan George | Will You Be My Friend? (book)>Will You Be My Friend? by James Kavanaugh | Four poster bed | more |
| 23 August 1987}} | Edna O'Brien | Encyclopædia Britannica | Cristal champagne | more |
| 30 August 1987}} | Lord Montagu|Lord Montagu}} | The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien | Windsurfing board | more |
| 6 September 1987}} | Kitty Godfree | The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins | Bicycle | more |
| 13 September 1987}} | Joanna Lumley | A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell | Specially-commissioned John Ward painting of family and friends | more |
| 20 September 1987}} | Peter West | Oxford Dictionary of Quotations | Set of gardening tools | more |
| 27 September 1987}} | Jacques Loussier | Beasts, Men and Gods by Ferdinand Ossendowski | Piano | more |
| 4 October 1987}} | Lulu | Where Are You Going? by Swami Muktananda | Telephone | more |
| 11 October 1987}} | Lord Killanin|Lord Killanin}} | A Vanished Arcadia by Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham | Olympic gold medal and award | more |
| 18 October 1987}} | Sir James Callaghan|Sir James Callaghan}} | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Telescope and star-gazing book | more |
| 25 October 1987}} | Bernard Levin | The Michelin Guide to France | Laptop computer | more |
| 1 November 1987}} | Bamber Gascoigne | Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne | Carpentry tools | more |
| 8 November 1987}} | Sue Lawley | French Provincial Cooking by Elizabeth David | Iron and ironing board | more |
| 15 November 1987}} | Robert Carrier | The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell | Tajine | more |
| 22 November 1987}} | Barry Cryer | The Complete Works of J. B. Priestley | Tape recorder with a cassette of recordings from home | more |
| 29 November 1987}} | Vernon Scannell | Anthology of English poetry|Compiled anthology of English poetry}} | Enormous amount of A4 paper | more |
| 6 December 1987}} | Antony Sher | Blank book or journal | Pens, charcoal and paints|Pens, charcoal and paints}} | more |
| 13 December 1987}} | Lew Grade | The Antiquary by Walter Scott | Crate of Montecristo cigars | more |
| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More
info | | 10 January 1988}} | Adele Leigh | Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll | Loofah | more |
| 17 January 1988}} | Rt. Hon. Michael Heseltine | The Dictionary of Trees and Shrubs | Mosquito net | more |
| 24 January 1988}} | Gemma Craven | Floyd on Fish by Keith Floyd | Manicure set | more |
| 31 January 1988}} | Lord Donoughue | Unknown | Unknown | more |
| 7 February 1988}} | Margaret Kelly - Miss Bluebell | History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill | Her first dress worn on stage | more |
| 14 February 1988}} | William Davis | The Dictionary of Samuel Johnson | Telescope | more |
| 21 February 1988}} | Dennis Potter | Spycatcher by Peter Wright | Train set | more |
| 28 February 1988}} | Stephanie Beacham | The Ascent of Man by Dr Jacob Bronowski | Photograph of her children | more |
| 6 March 1988}} | James Burke | The works of Homer | Guitar and strings | more |
| 13 March 1988}} | Brendan Foster | The Lakeland Peaks (photographs) by W. A. Poucher | Tea | more |
| 27 March 1988}} | Lord Hailsham|Lord Hailsham}} | the works of Homer|The works of Homer}} | a bathtub and some soap|Bathtub and some soap}} | more |
| 3 April 1988}} | Jane Asher | Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy | a hot bath with extra tap for cold champagne|Hot bath with extra tap for cold champagne}} | more |
| 10 April 1988}} | Arthur Scargill | Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain | the Mona Lisa|The Mona Lisa}} | more |
| 17 April 1988}} | Mary Archer | Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust | needles, cotton and material|Needles, cotton and material}} | more |
| 24 April 1988}} | Michael Gambon | Republician Party Reptile by P. J. O'Rourke | a car (to listen to music in)|Car (in which to listen to music)}} | more |
| 1 May 1988}} | Neil Kinnock | Essays on Equality by R. H. Tawney | Radio 4|Radio 4}} | more |
| 8 May 1988}} | Peggy Makins | the biggest atlas in the world|The biggest atlas in the world}} | a little rosebush|Little rosebush}} | more |
| 15 May 1988}} | Rowan Atkinson | Uncle Fred in Springtime by P. G. Wodehouse | a car (to clean)|Car (to clean)}} | more |
| 22 May 1988}} | Anita Roddick | Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy | a comfortable bed with pillows and sheets|Comfortable bed with pillows and sheets}} | more |
| 29 May 1988}} | Rabbi Lionel Blue | the biggest volume of pure maths|The biggest volume of pure maths}} | a toilet bag with toothbrush, electric razor etc.|Toilet bag}} | more |
| 5 June 1988}} | Anton Mosimann | the recipe book of the Pope's chef in 1525|Opera di M. Bartolomeo Scappi (recipe book of the Pope's chef in 1525)}} | a steamer for cooking|Steamer for cooking}} | more |
| 12 June 1988}} | Rt. Hon. Douglas Hurd | The Oxford Book of 20th Century English Verse|Oxford Book of 20th Century English Verse}} | Champagne | more |
| 19 June 1988}} | Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies | no other book requested|No other book requested}} | a large bottle of toilet water|Large bottle of toilet water}} | more |
| 26 June 1988}} | Jeremy Isaacs | a compilation of Benny Green|A compilation of Benny Green}} | Frogman's outfit and snorkel|Frogman's outfit and snorkel}} | more |
| 3 July 1988}} | Dr David Owen | his own anthology of poems|His own anthology of poems}} | a hot bath|Hot bath}} | more |
| 10 July 1988}} | David Essex | The Guinness Book of Records | a set of cricket equipment|Set of cricket equipment}} | more |
| 17 July 1988}} | Dame Edna Everage | her filofax|Filofax}} | Madge Allsop | more |
| 24 July 1988}} | Lord Armstrong|Lord Armstrong}} | collected works of Jane Austen|The collected works of Jane Austen}} | Music manuscript paper, pencil and rubber | more |
| 31 July 1988}} | Joan Turner | Introduction to the Devout Life by Francis de Sales | Baked beans | more |
| 7 August 1988}} | Reverend Ian Paisley | Foxe's Book of Martyrs|Foxe's Book of Martyrs}} | a high-powered radio|High-powered radio}} | more |
| 14 August 1988}} | Patricia Neal | a collection of short stories|A collection of short stories}} | Toothbursh and toothpaste|Toothbrush and toothpaste}} | more |
| 21 August 1988}} | Lord Dacre of Glanton | collected works of Virgil|The collected Works of Virgil}} | paper, pen and ink|Paper, pen and ink}} | more |
| 28 August 1988}} | Anita Dobson | The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde | a bed|Bed}} | more |
| 4 September 1988}} | Alfred Wainwright | No other book requested, but two photographs|Two photographs (one of his wife; one of 1928 Blackburn Rovers team)}} | a mirror|Mirror}} | more |
| 11 September 1988}} | Peter Donohoe | The Complete Scripts of Billy Connolly | a waterbed|Waterbed}} | more |
| 18 September 1988}} | Salman Rushdie | Arabian Nights | an unlisted radio telephone|Unlisted radio telephone}} | more |
| 25 September 1988}} | Trevor Huddleston | The Oxford Book of English Verse|Oxford Book of English Verse}} | a pair of binoculars|Binoculars}} | more |
| 2 October 1988}} | Athene Seyler | The Disinherited by Gareth Jones | a case of champagne|Case of champagne}} | more |
| 9 October 1988}} | Terry Wogan | the collected works of P. G. Wodehouse|The collected works of P. G. Wodehouse}} | a radio/ cassette player and language tapes|Radio-cassette player and language tapes}} | more |
| 16 October 1988}} | Cilla Black | Aesop's Fables | a manicure set and nail varnish|Manicure set and nail varnish}} | more |
| 23 October 1988}} | Michael Foot | Don Juan by Lord Byron | an alarm clock cased in Welsh tinplate|Alarm clock encased in Welsh tinplate}} | more |
| 30 October 1988}} | Germaine Greer | the Oxford English Dictionary|The Oxford English Dictionary}} | hot spices|Hot spices}} | more |
| 6 November 1988}} | Claus Moser | a volume of James Thurber|Volume of James Thurber}} | a Steinway grand piano|Concert grand Steinway piano}} | more |
| 13 November 1988}} | Bob Hoskins | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller | a telescope|Telescope}} | more |
| 20 November 1988}} | Bob Champion | Fraser's Horse Book | a bronze statue of the racehorse Aldaniti|A bronze statue of the racehorse Aldaniti}} | more |
| 27 November 1988}} | Stephen Fry | The Jeeves Omnibus|Jeeves Omnibus by P. G. Wodehouse}} | a suicide pill|Suicide pill}} | more |
| 4 December 1988}} | Baroness Warnock | The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope | pen and paper|Pen and paper}} | more |
| 11 December 1988}} | Charles Dance | A Dream in the Luxembourg by Richard Aldington | a guitar|Guitar}} | more |
| 18 December 1988}} | Edward Heath | A volume of the works of Impressionist painters | suntan lotion|Suntan lotion}} | more |
| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More
info | | 1 January 1989}} | Most Rev Robert Runcie | The Odyssey by Homer | his own rocking chair|Rocking chair}} | more |
| 8 January 1989}} | Twiggy | Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy | cold cream|Cold cream}} | more |
| 15 January 1989}} | Tony Benn | Das Kapital by Karl Marx | a kettle and teabags|Kettle and teabags}} | more |
| 22 January 1989}} | Boy George | photograph album|Photograph album}} | a radio|Radio receiver}} | more |
| 29 January 1989}} | Joan Armatrading | Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie | a guitar|Guitar}} | more |
| 5 February 1989}} | Rocco Forte | The Divine Comedy by Dante | a snooker table|Snooker table}} | more |
| 12 February 1989}} | Jeffrey Tate | the collected works of Jane Austen|The collected works of Jane Austen}} | Nativity painting from the National Gallery|{{ill|Nativity (Piero della Francesca)|lt=Nativity|it|Natività (Piero della Francesca)}} painting from the National Gallery}} | more |
| 19 February 1989}} | Enoch Powell | the Old Testament (in Hebrew and Greek)|Old Testament (in Hebrew and Greek)}} | a fish smoker|Smoking device to smoke fish}} | more |
| 26 February 1989}} | David Hare | Larousse Gastronomique | a cricket bat and bowling machine|Cricket bat and bowling machine}} | more |
| 5 March 1989}} | Dame Josephine Barnes | The scores of all music chosen in a bound volume | a solar-powered word processor|Word processor}} | more |
| 12 March 1989}} | Gerald Scarfe | Anything by Capability Brown | a river painting by Turner|River painting by Turner}} | more |
| 2 April 1989}} | Stephen Spender|Sir Stephen Spender}} | Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust | painting or sculpture|Painting or sculpture by son with photograph of daughter}} | more |
| 9 April 1989}} | Leslie Grantham | Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe | a metal detector|Metal detector}} | more |
| 16 April 1989}} | Lord Jenkins|Lord Jenkins}} | Who's Who | a case of Bordeaux wine|Case of Bordeaux wine}} | more |
| 23 April 1989}} | Miriam Rothschild | Encyclopædia Britannica | a packet of wildflower seeds|Bag of wildflower seeds}} | more |
| 30 April 1989}} | Lady Redgrave|Lady Redgrave}} | Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë | a case of champagne|Case of champagne}} | more |
| 7 May 1989}} | Lenny Henry | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller | Graphic novels (comics) | more |
| 14 May 1989}} | Thora Hird | Scene and Hird by Thora Hird | cleansing milk|Cleansing milk}} | more |
| 21 May 1989}} | Katharine Hamnett | The I Ching|I Ching}} | an aircraft carrier|Aircraft carrier}} | more |
| 28 May 1989}} | Sir Nicholas Henderson | Guy de Maupassant's short stories | a sculpture from the Louvre|Sculpture from the Louvre and box of different seeds}} | more |
| 4 June 1989}} | Richard Branson | a teach yourself Japanese phrase book/dictionary|Teach yourself Japanese phrase book}} | notebooks and pens|Notebooks and pens}} | more |
| 11 June 1989}} | Jonathon Porritt | Bleak House by Charles Dickens | a fountain pen|Fountain pen}} | more |
| 18 June 1989}} | Maria Aitken | Fun in a Chinese Laundry by Josef von Sternberg | Amazonian rain-maker|Amazonian rain-maker}} | more |
| 25 June 1989}} | Joan Collins | The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde | a large bottle of moisturiser|Large bottle of suntan oil and moisturiser}} | more |
| 2 July 1989}} | Mark McCormack | Les Misérables by Victor Hugo | suntan lotion|Suntan lotion}} | more |
| 9 July 1989}} | Ned Sherrin | No Bed for Bacon by Caryl Brahms | a sack of seed potatoes|Seed potatoes}} | more |
| 16 July 1989}} | Sir Thomas Armstrong | no other book requested|No other book requested}} | a clavichord|Clavichord}} | more |
| 3 September 1989}} | Dame Vera Lynn | a book on edible fruits and vegetables |A book on edible fruits and vegetables}} | watercolour paints, brushes and paper|Watercolour paints, brushes and paper}} | more |
| 10 September 1989}} | Eric Clapton | Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens | a guitar|Guitar}} | more |
| 17 September 1989}} | Penelope Lively | Moby Dick by Herman Melville | a pair of binoculars|Binoculars}} | more |
| 24 September 1989}} | John Ogdon | The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins | a Steinway grand piano|Steinway piano}} | more |
| 1 October 1989}} | Lucinda Lambton | The Dictionary of National Biography | a word processor|Word processor}} | more |
| 8 October 1989}} | Jack Lemmon | A Play in the Fields of Our Lord by Peter Matheson | a piano|Piano}} | more |
| 15 October 1989}} | Alan Plater | Smell of Sunday Dinner by Sid Chaplin | writing materials|Writing materials}} | more |
| 22 October 1989}} | Colin Thubron | A Year of Grace by Victor Gollancz | scuba-diving equipment| Scuba-diving equipment}} | more |
| 5 November 1989}} | Ian Botham | An encyclopaedia of species of fish of the world|Encyclopaedia of species of fish of the world}} | a fishing rod|Fishing rod}} | more |
| 12 November 1989}} | Michael Codron | Caroline and Charlotte by Alison Plowman | a trunkload of jigsaw puzzles|Jigsaw puzzles}} | more |
| 19 November 1989}} | Seamus Heaney | Ulysses by James Joyce | a pair of Doc Martens boots|Doc Martens boots}} | more |
| 26 November 1989}} | Lady Mosley | Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust | a soft pillow or rug|Soft pillow}} | more |
| 3 December 1989}} | Rt. Hon. Nigel Lawson | the poetry of John Donne|The poetry of John Donne}} | a solar-powered radio set|Radio receiver}} | more |
| 17 December 1989}} | Pauline Collins | a teach yourself book about physics|Teach yourself physics}} | paper, pencils and paints|Paper, pencils and paints}} | more |
| 24 December 1989}} | The Duchess of Kent|HRH The Duchess of Kent}} | The Reader's Digest New Do-It-Yourself Guide | a solar-powered lamp|Lamp with solar batteries}} | more |
| 31 December 1989}} | Dirk Bogarde | Akenfield|Akenfield by Ronald Blythe}} | a distillery|Distillery}} | more |
| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More
info | | 7 January 1990}} | Dennis Skinner | Let's Face the Music by Benny Green | bike|Bike }} | more |
| 14 January 1990}} | John Peel | Dance to the Music of Time|A Dance to the Music of Time}} by Anthony Powell | football|Football}} | more |
| 21 January 1990}} | Robin Day|Sir Robin Day}} | The Oxford Book of English Verse|Oxford Book of English Verse}} | magnum of champagne|Magnum of champagne}} | more |
| 28 January 1990}} | Lord Weidenfeld | The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens | armchair with coffee machine and rescue signal|Armchair with coffee machine and rescue signal}} | more |
| 4 February 1990}} | Sarah Miles | I Ching | word processor|Word processor}} | more |
| 11 February 1990}} | Michael Tilson Thomas | poems of Rainer Maria Rilke|Collected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke}} | Yahama computerised concert grand piano | more |
| 18 February 1990}} | John Pilger | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller | typewriter|Typewriter}} | more |
| 25 February 1990}} | John Sessions | David Copperfield by Charles Dickens | A 78rpm record of The Laughing Policeman to smash on the rocks | more |
| 4 March 1990}} | Sir Ian Trethowan|Sir Ian Trethowan}} | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | champagne|Champagne}} | more |
| 11 March 1990}} | Sir George Porter|Professor Sir George Porter}} | Non-Equilibrium Thermo Dynamics by Prigogine | computer, pen and paper|Computer, pen and paper}} | more |
| 18 March 1990}} | Richard Rogers | The Odyssey by Homer | His wife Ruth, but if this is disallowed then a painting | more |
| 25 March 1990}} | Rt Hon John Biffen MP | 1946 Wisden Almanack for cricketers|Wisden Cricketers' Almanack }} | Rain gauge | more |
| 15 April 1990}} | Sir Crispin Tickell | Guide to Science by Asimov | Solar-powered telescope | more |
| 22 April 1990}} | Mary Wesley | Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez | Denis Healey or large double bed with pillows | more |
| 29 April 1990}} | June Whitfield | A do-it-yourself manual | Supply of cocoa butter and hat | more |
| 6 May 1990}} | Prue Leith | Barchester novels|The Barchester novels by Anthony Trollope}} | Jeroboam of champagne | more |
| 13 May 1990}} | Molly Keane | A bound copy of the Spectator magazines | A bed, netted from snakes and flies | more |
| 20 May 1990}} | Jonathan Pryce | Short stories of Bernard MacLaverty | Endless supply of rum punch | more |
| 27 May 1990}} | David Blunkett | Anthology of verse by Robert Graves | Radio/cassette machine|Radio/cassette machine}} | more |
| 3 June 1990}} | Ken Dodd | Times atlas of the world|The Times atlas of the world}} | A box of scented soap | more |
| 10 June 1990}} | Maeve Binchy | Teach yourself bridge | photograph album|Photograph album}} | more |
| 17 June 1990}} | Harold Fielding | Great Murder Trials of the 20th Century by Sir David Napley | large bag of sugar|Large bag of sugar}} | more |
| 24 June 1990}} | George Carman | The Golden Treasury by Francis Palgrave | Painting of the Grand Canal in Venice | more |
| 1 July 1990}} | Kaffe Fassett | Reflections|Reflections by Hermann Hesse}} | Diary and pen | more |
| 8 July 1990}} | Peter Jonas | City of God by Saint Augustine | Cyanide, in a joint, in champagne truffle, in a fridge|Cyanide, in a joint, in champagne truffle in a fridge}} | more |
| 15 July 1990}} | Jean Rook | The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy | Computer | more |
| 2 September 1990}} | Robin Knox-Johnston | Books identifying birds and fish | Video recorder and tapes of the Queen Mother's parade | more |
| 9 September 1990}} | Lord Charteris | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Set of wood-carving tools | more |
| 16 September 1990}} | Dr Ruth Westheimer|Ruth Westheimer}} | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell | Large box of marrons glaces | more |
| 23 September 1990}} | Barbara Windsor | A book about Hollywood | Writing materials and Union flag | more |
| 30 September 1990}} | Gary Lineker | Wisden Cricketers' Almanack | Bowling machine | more |
| 7 October 1990}} | John Thaw | The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame | Large comfortable armchair | more |
| 14 October 1990}} | Clive Jenkins | Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe | Video player and tape of Citizen Kane | more |
| 21 October 1990}} | Ernie Wise | The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens | Yellow Rolls Royce | more |
| 28 October 1990}} | Nicholas Snowman | Smiley's People by John le Carré | Coffee machine | more |
| 4 November 1990}} | Lord Annan | The Iliad in Greek and English by Homer | Bath essence | more |
| 11 November 1990}} | Baroness Castle of Blackburn | The collected works of William Morris | Typewriter | more |
| 18 November 1990}} | Elizabeth Welch | Who's Who in the Theatre | Photo of her mother | more |
| 25 November 1990}} | Baroness Trumpington | George V by Kenneth Rose | Crown jewels|The crown jewels (so someone will look for her)}} | more |
| 2 December 1990}} | Sir Eduardo Paolozzi | A tropical plant book in Italian with English gloss | Hurdy gurdy | more |
| 23 December 1990}} | Brian Keenan | The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper by Donal O'Sullivan | Pencil | more |
| 30 December 1990}} | Keith Floyd | Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake | Pair of handmade blue suede shoes | more |
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