Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
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6 January 1991}} | Lord Goodman | Who's Who | enormous box of chocolate ginger|An enormous box of chocolate gingers}} | more |
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 | Very large self-renewing bottle of scotch | more |
27 January 1991}} | Brian Eno | Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty | Radio telescope | more |
3 February 1991}} | Professor Ralf|Dahrendorf|Ralf Dahrendorf}} | A book of Greek poetry | Dice to test the luck of a ship rescuing him | more |
10 February 1991}} | Paddy Ashdown MP | The collected works of John Donne | Laptop computer | more |
17 February 1991}} | Dame Ninette de Valois | A collection of poems | An everlasting bottle of sleeping pills | more |
24 February 1991}} | Ronald Eyre | A talking book by Judi Dench | Supply of flower bulbs | more |
3 March 1991}} | Sir Denis|Forman|Denis Forman}} | Raj Quartet by Paul Scott | Satellite dish and TV | more |
10 March 1991}} | Jeffrey Bernard | The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | High-powered hunting rifle and ammnunition|High powered hunting rifle and ammunition}} | more |
17 March 1991}} | Sir Trevor|Holdsworth|Trevor Holdsworth}} | Collected Plays of J. B. Priestley | upright piano|Upright piano}} | more |
24 March 1991}} | Marti Caine | Do-it-yourself manual | do-it-yourself|Do-it-yourself kit}} | more |
7 April 1991}} | Naomi Mitchison | Book of modern poetry | Endless supply of writing materials | more |
14 April 1991}} | Lord|King|John King, Baron King of Wartnaby}} | Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | Supply of cigars and matches | more |
21 April 1991}} | Dr 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 | Sagittarius Surviving by C. S. Lewis | Fax machine | more |
19 May 1991}} | John Simpson | Anything in French by Marcel Proust | Flute | more |
26 May 1991}} | Rt. Hon. John Smith | Anthology of poems | Case of champagne | more |
2 June 1991}} | Marco Pierre White | Ma Gastronomie by Fernand Point | Picture of his daughter | more |
9 June 1991}} | Derek Walcott | Ulysses by James Joyce | Carton of cigarettes | more |
16 June 1991}} | A. S. Byatt | A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust | Large filing cabinet full of A4 paper and pens | more |
23 June 1991}} | John Hegarty | The Crock of Gold by James Stephens | clarinet|Clarinet}} | more |
30 June 1991}} | Ron Todd | The collected works of Robert Burns | piano|Piano}} | 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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller | nail clippers|Nail clippers}} | more |
1 September 1991}} | Maxwell Hutchinson | Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot | guitar|Guitar}} | more |
8 September 1991}} | Bernice|Rubens}} | Poems For Joy and Sermons For Solace by John Donne | a painting by her daughter|A painting by her daughter}} | more |
15 September 1991}} | John Banham | The collected works of A. E. Housman | cigars and matches|Cigars and matches}} | more |
22 September 1991}} | Klaus Tennstedt | Dr Faustus|Dr Faustus by Thomas Mann}} | mountain bike|Mountain bike}} | more |
29 September 1991}} | David Bailey | Voices of Silence by Malraux | Nelson's Column | more |
6 October 1991}} | Imran Khan | Bang-E-Dara by Iqbal | Shotgun 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 | Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake | Typowriter and paper|Typewriter and paper}} | more |
10 November 1991}} | Lord Delfont | 1515–1985 British Music Theatre Book | Cigars and matches | more |
17 November 1991}} | James Lovelock | The Golden Treasury by Francis Palgrave | Pen 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 | Lucky Jim|This Is Your Life by Gorden Kaye}} | A clock given to him for turning on the Oxford lights | more |
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
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12 January 1992}} | Steven Berkoff | gardening book|A gardening book}} | Piano | more |
19 January 1992}} | Reverend David Jenkins | The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Binoculars | more |
26 January 1992}} | John Major | The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope | Oval cricket ground replica and bowling machine | more |
2 February 1992}} | J. G. Ballard | Moby Dick by Herman Melville | Unicycle | 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 | Solar-powered receiver to receive BBC Radio 4 | more |
23 February 1992}} | Elvis Costello | Selected Works of James Thurber | Upright piano | more |
1 March 1992}} | Dr Steve|Jones|Steve Jones (biologist)}} | Valley of Bones by Anthony Powell | Stuffed body of the Minister of Education | more |
8 March 1992}} | Jocelyn Stevens | Other Men's Flowers by Lord Wavell | One mile stretch of the River Test in Hampshire | more |
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|Welsh/English Dictionary}} | Parquet floor and tap shoes | more |
3 May 1992}} | Henrietta, Marchioness of|Tavistock|Henrietta, Dowager Duchess of Bedford}} | History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill | Triangular pillow | more |
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 | Shakespeare, Bible and Dictionary|The Complete Works of Shakespeare in German and the Bible in Russian, and a Russian dictionary}} | A huge tapestry kit|Huge tapestry kit}} | more |
7 June 1992}} | Duncan Goodhew | Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien | Wig | more |
14 June 1992}} | Robert Lindsay | Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence | Computer chess set | more |
21 June 1992}} | Terry Waite | Complete Cambridge Histories | Computer chess game|Chess computer}} | more |
28 June 1992}} | Vivienne Westwood | A La Recherche du Temps Perdu|À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust}} | Multi-lingual dictionary | more |
5 July 1992}} | Clare Short MP | Geometry tutor | Piano | more |
12 July 1992}} | Mohamed|Amin}} | Life of John F. Kennedy | Satellite dish and television set | more |
19 July 1992}} | Sir Peregrine|Worsthorne|Peregrine Worsthorne}} | Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh | Hallcuinogenic drugs|Hallucinogenic drugs}} | more |
26 July 1992}} | David Mellor | The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy | Telephone (disconnected) | more |
6 September 1992}} | Bob Geldof | The Diary of Samuel Pepys | Metropolitan Museum in New York | more |
13 September 1992}} | Penelope Leach | The Complete Works of Sigmund Freud | Coffee | more |
20 September 1992}} | Raymond Blanc | The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | A good luck stone (from his wife) | more |
27 September 1992}} | Chad Varah | The New Oxford Book of English Verse|The New Oxford Book of English Verse}} | Own bathroom run by solar power with hot and cold water and a video player attached | more |
4 October 1992}} | Juliet Stevenson | The Complete Works of W. B. Yeats | Masaccio Frescos in the Brancacci Chapel | more |
11 October 1992}} | Lord Sainsbury | The New Oxford Book of English Verse|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 | The Diary of Samuel Pepys | Year's recording of the Today programme | more |
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 | Memoirs by Hector Berlioz | Sancerre | more |
29 November 1992}} | Lord Tebbit | History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill | Drinking fountain with taps for sancerre and claret | more |
6 December 1992}} | Carmen Callil | Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson | The Commitments|A film - The Commitments}} | more |
13 December 1992}} | Professor Ghillean|Prance|Ghillean Prance}} | The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White | The Commitments|Accordion}} | more |
20 December 1992}} | Paul Smith | Beano Annual 1974|The Beano Annual 1974}} | Notebook and pencil | more |
25 December 1992}} | Stephen Hawking | Middlemarch by George Eliot | Creme brulee | more |
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
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3 January 1993}} | Elizabeth Jennings | The New Oxford Book of American Verse | Pad, felt pens and biros|Pad, felt pens and biros}} | more |
10 January 1993}} | Barbara Mills QC | History of the Crusades by Steven Runciman | Tennis court, balls, racket and wall | more |
17 January 1993}} | Dervla Murphy | The Diary of Samuel Pepys | A still to distill berries, etc., into drink | more |
24 January 1993}} | Evelyn Glennie | Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman | Chocolate | more |
31 January 1993}} | Anthony Storr | A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust | Piano | more |
21 February 1993}} | Sir Robin Butler | Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy | Bag of golf clubs and balls|A bag of golf clubs and balls}} | more |
28 February 1993}} | Elijah Moshinsky | Plays of Chekhov|Michael Frayn translation of the Complete Plays of Anton Chekhov}} | Duvet|A duvet}} | more |
7 March 1993}} | Ken Livingstone MP | The Myths of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley | The World Service|The World Service}} | more |
14 March 1993}} | David Croft | Collected Poems of Sir John Betjeman | Piano | more |
4 April 1993}} | Richard Gregory | An astronomy book by Patrick Moore | Astronomical telescope|Astronomical telescope}} | more |
11 April 1993}} | Lord|Oaksey|John Lawrence, 2nd Baron Oaksey}} | Mr Mulliner's Memoirs by P. G. Wodehouse | Cargo of champagne | more |
18 April 1993}} | Anton Edelmann | Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Rainer Maria Rilke | Wok | 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 Carl Jung | Telescope | more |
9 May 1993}} | John Cole | A La Recherche du Temps Perdu|À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust}} | Typewriter | more |
16 May 1993}} | Eva Burrows | Faber Book of Religious Verse | Game of Scrabble with paper and pencil | more |
23 May 1993}} | Lord Weinstock | If This Be A Man by Primo Levi | Photograph album of family, friends and colleagues | more |
30 May 1993}} | Kaye Webb | Poetry of Naomi Lewis | Very big photograph album on a wheeling table | more |
6 June 1993}} | Frank Bruno | Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe | Picture of his family | more |
13 June 1993}} | Rt Hon Betty Boothroyd MP | A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth | Mace of the House of Commons|Mace 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|Collection of large-scale Ordnance Survey maps of England}} | more |
4 July 1993}} | Peter Mayle | The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa | The menu from his favourite Parisien restaurant | more |
11 July 1993}} | Nicholas Hytner | The collected works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Large 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 | A biography of Buster Keaton|Biography of Buster Keaton by Rudi Blesh}} | Bed | more |
26 September 1993}} | Lord|Palumbo|Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo}} | On the Road by Jack Kerouac | Telescope | more |
3 October 1993}} | Rt Hon Virginia Bottomley MP | Norton's Star Atlas | Radio 4's Today programme|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}} | Judge Stephen Tumim | Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne | Marble bust of Laurence Sterne|Marbel bust of Laurence Sterne}} | more |
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 | Large Chippendale mirror | more |
21 November 1993}} | Doris Lessing | A Thousand and One Nights|A Thousand and One Nights}} | Magic carpet | more |
28 November 1993}} | Taki | Essential Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway | Boxing punchbag|Boxing punchbag}} | more |
19 December 1993}} | Phil Collins | Prehistory of the Far Side|Prehsitory of the Far Side by Gary Larson}} | Piano | more |
26 December 1993}} | Lord Ashley of Stoke | A book about warfare | Smoked salmon and wine | more |
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
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2 January 1994}} | Oliver Sacks | Dictionary of Musical Themes | Scuba diving kit| Scuba diving kit }} | more |
9 January 1994}} | Ian Hislop | Civilisation by Kenneth Clark | Frosties|Frosties}} | more |
16 January 1994}} | Sir Harrison Birtwistle | Latin Primer|A Latin Primer}} | Chainsaw | more |
23 January 1994}} | Willy Russell | Latin Primer|A Latin Primer}} | English meadow with an oak tree | more |
30 January 1994}} | Dame Cicely|Saunders|Cicely Saunders}} | Oxford Dictionary of Quotations | Pen and paper | more |
6 February 1994}} | Douglas Adams | Omnibus of Golfing Stories by P. G. Wodehouse | Martin D28 left-handed guitar | more |
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 | The Life of Lord Melbourne by Lord David Cecil | Tenor sax | more |
27 February 1994}} | Frances Partridge | Memoirs by Duc 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 | Oxford Book of English Verse | Model of HMS Hood | more |
3 April 1994}} | Sir Ranulph Fiennes | Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake | Antisan for insect bites | more |
10 April 1994}} | Roger McGough | Times Atlas of the Night Sky|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 | Anthology of poetry | Box of paints, brushes and paper | more |
1 May 1994}} | Garrison Keillor | Roget's Thesaurus | Set of china (four place settings) | more |
8 May 1994}} | Sir John Wilson | A chess strategy book (in Braille) | A sonic probe | more |
15 May 1994}} | Kate Adie | The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer | Victorian bath|Large Victorian bath with claw feet}} | more |
22 May 1994}} | Britt Ekland | Recent editions of magazines, e.g. Vanity Fair, Vogue | Case of Evian water and champagne | more |
29 May 1994}} | Peter Scudamore | Book of verse by Rudyard Kipling | Snorkeling equipment | more |
5 June 1994}} | Milton Shulman | The Cookery Book by Constance Spry | Tennis racket and ball machine | more |
12 June 1994}} | Zoë Wanamaker | Greek Myths by Robert Graves | Samson tobacco and liquorice Rizla papers | more |
19 June 1994}} | Brian Sewell | Songs from the 1880s with piano accompaniment 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|Hugo Gryn}} | Biography of Churchill by Martin Gilbert | A parking space | more |
11 September 1994}} | Joanna Trollope | Oxford Book of English Verse | Bed and white Egyptian sheets | more |
18 September 1994}} | John Tavener | Apophthegmata Patrum (early writing of Egyptian fathers) | Upright piano | more |
25 September 1994}} | Mary Stott | The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler | Watercolours for painting | more |
2 October 1994}} | Professor James|Fenton|James Fenton}} | The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri | Snorkel, mask and harpoon|Snorkel, mask and harpoon}} | more |
9 October 1994}} | Jeanette Winterson | Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot | case of Krug champagne|A case of Krug champagne}} | more |
16 October 1994}} | Sir George Christie | Origin of Species by Charles Darwin | Radio 4's The Archers|BBC Radio 4's The Archers - all the recordings from the beginning}} | more |
23 October 1994}} | Lynda La Plante | Fairy Stories by Honoré de Balzac | Mouth organ | more |
30 October 1994}} | Kathleen Hale | A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust | A gilabra (cloak of gold) | more |
6 November 1994}} | Archbishop Desmond Tutu | Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch | Ice-cream maker (especially for rum and raisin flavour) | more |
13 November 1994}} | Berthold Goldschmidt | Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann | Vanity case including metal mirror and shaving kit | more |
20 November 1994}} | Glenys Kinnock | Atlas of the Third World | Toilet bag full of skin-barrier creams | more |
27 November 1994}} | Sir Howard Hodgkin | Journal De Eugène Delacroix by Eugène Delacroix | Mayonnaise - permanent supply | more |
4 December 1994}} | Margaret Forster | A House For Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul | Unlimited supply of A4 white paper and cartridges for fountain pen | more |
18 December 1994}} | Penelope Hobhouse | The Golden Bowl by Henry James | Laptop computer | more |
25 December 1994}} | David Jason OBE | A complete boatbuilder's book|The complete boatbuilder's book}} | A complete carpenter's toolbox | more |
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
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1 January 1995}} | Alan Clark | A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell | Piano | more |
8 January 1995}} | Patricia Hodge | A compendium of the plays of Harold Pinter | Supply of embroidery | more |
15 January 1995}} | Phil Redmond | The collected works of Charles Dickens | Magnifying glass | more |
22 January 1995}} | Dr. Richard Dawkins | The Jeeves Omnibus by P. G. Wodehouse | Computer (solar-powered) | more |
29 January 1995}} | Sir Adrian Cadbury | Dr. Johnson's Lexicographic Works by Samuel Johnson | Fibreglass sculling boat | more |
19 February 1995}} | Jimmy Knapp | The Socialist Sixth of the World by Hewlett Johnson | Case of Talisker whisky | more |
26 February 1995}} | Christopher Lee | The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White | Set of golf clubsmore |
5 March 1995}} | Professor Eric|Hobsbawm|Eric Hobsbawm}} | Canto General by Pablo Neruda | Binoculars | more |
12 March 1995}} | Nigel Nicolson | A Guide to the Universe | Telescope | more |
19 March 1995}} | Felix Aprahamian | Du Cote De Chez Swann by Marcel Proust | Swiss army knife | more |
2 April 1995}} | Nina Bawden | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon | Plain 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|Romney's portrait of Lady Hamilton}} | more |
30 April 1995}} | Pete Waterman | A history of Great Western Railway engines | Havana cigars and matches | more |
7 May 1995}} | Dr. George|Carey|George Carey}} | Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot | Computer and an empty bottle | more |
14 May 1995}} | Neil Simon | How To Swim | Large harmonica | more |
21 May 1995}} | Sir Bernard Ingham | Times atlas of the world|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 | His guitar | more |
18 June 1995}} | Sir Magdi Yacoub | Pluto's Republic by Sir Peter Medawar | Hammock | more |
25 June 1995}} | Jasper Conran | Tales by Hoffman | Vintage Krug champagne | more |
2 July 1995}} | Duke of|Westminster|Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor}} | Through Russian Snows by G. A. Henty | Telescope | more |
9 July 1995}} | Wendy Richard | Wilt by Tom Sharpe | Tapestry to make | more |
10 September 1995}} | John Updike | The collected works of Marcel Proust | Silken tent (for luxury, not survival) | more |
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 | Virtual-reality headset | more |
1 October 1995}} | Jenny Pitman | Veterinary Notes For Horse Owners | Television set | more |
8 October 1995}} | Alan Yentob | Essays by Michel de Montaigne | Video recorder | more |
15 October 1995}} | Richard Hoggart | Essays by Michel de Montaigne | Fountain pen and paper | more |
22 October 1995}} | Don Black | 14,000 Things to be Happy About by Barbara Ann Kipfer | Snooker 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 | Hot lemon flannels (as provided in Chinese restaurants) | more |
17 December 1995}} | Barbara Dickson | English & Scottish Ballads by Francis Child | A very large set of solar-powered hair rollers|Very large set of solar-powered hair rollers}} | more |
24 December 1995}} | Petula Clark | Anything by Peter Ustinov | Her piano | more |
31 December 1995}} | Lady Margaret|Tebbit|Margaret Tebbit}} | Hillier's Dictionary of Plants|Hillier's Dictionary of Plants}} | An endless team of Man Fridays | more |
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
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7 January 1996}} | Christopher Hampton | Anything by Marcel Proust | Pen 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 | Letters of Gustave Flaubert | Writing 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|George Steiner}} | 500 year ahead calendar and appointment book | Computer | more |
25 February 1996}} | Sir Roy Calne | Global Biodiversity by Brian Goombridge | Paints and canvas | more |
3 March 1996}} | Gordon Brown | The Story of Art by Sir Ernst Gombrich | Tennis ball machine and racket|Tennis ball machine and racket}} | more |
17 March 1996}} | Lord|Alexander|Robert Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon}} | Other Men's Flowers by Lord Wavell | Paints and canvas | more |
24 March 1996}} | Kyra Vayne | A culinary book | Peanuts and treats to tame animals and birds | more |
31 March 1996}} | Simon Weston | Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell | Daily newspapers | more |
7 April 1996}} | Dickie Bird | Wisden's Cricketers Almanack|Wisden Cricketers' Almanack}} | TV and satellite to watch Test matches | more |
14 April 1996}} | Viscount|Rothermere|Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere}} | The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri | A pair of scissors | more |
21 April 1996}} | Hanif Kureishi | The Complete Works of Sigmund Freud | Marijuana seeds | more |
28 April 1996}} | Mitsuko Uchida | Anything by Leo Tolstoy (in Russian and English) | Piano | more |
5 May 1996}} | Pauline Quirke | Crying With Laughter by Bob Monkhouse | Shampoo | more |
12 May 1996}} | Hugh Laurie | A self-learn Italian book (slowly) | Family photo album | more |
19 May 1996}} | Janet Holmes à Court | Tourmaline by Randolph Stow | Jar of vegemite | more |
26 May 1996}} | Michael White | Anything by Marcel Proust | Bicycle | more |
2 June 1996}} | Gerry Robinson | The History of the World by John Roberts | Painting kit (easel, oils, brushes) | more |
9 June 1996}} | Peggy Mount | The Diary of Noël Coward | Tea in abundance | more |
16 June 1996}} | Quentin Crewe | Essays by Michel de Montaigne | The cellar from Trinity College, Cambridge | more |
18 August 1996}} | André Previn | The collected works of Anton Chekhov | Piano | more |
25 August 1996}} | Anita Lasker-Wallfisch | The History of the World by John Roberts | Cello | more |
1 September 1996}} | Sir Terence Conran | History of the World|History of the World by H. G. Wells}} | Endless supply of A4 paper and 4B pencils | more |
8 September 1996}} | Professor Colin|Blakemore|Colin Blakemore}} | The Discoverers by Daniel Boorstin | Solar-powered Internet (to receive, not send) | more |
15 September 1996}} | Kevin Whately | The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie | Northumbrian pipes | more |
22 September 1996}} | Fran Landesman | Rebel Without Applause and Jaywalking by Jay Landesman | Cannabis seeds | more |
29 September 1996}} | Ben Elton | His wedding photo album | The British Museum | more |
6 October 1996}} | Lewis Wolpert | Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and The Principles of Morals by David Hume | Bicycle | more |
13 October 1996}} | Rumer Godden | The Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry by Edith Sitwell | Widow's cruise filled with whisky|A widow's cruise filled with whisky}} | more |
20 October 1996}} | Jack Charlton | Encyclopaedia of How to Survive | Fishing rod | more |
27 October 1996}} | Jancis Robinson | Middlemarch by George Eliot | Cellar of wines and a corkscrew | more |
3 November 1996}} | Chris Patten | A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking | Bath | more |
10 November 1996}} | Sir Laurens Van Der|Post|Laurens Van Der Post}} | The Golden Bough by James Frazer | Piano | more |
17 November 1996}} | Tessa Sanderson | The History of the World by John Roberts | Toothbrush 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) | Glass and tools to make a telescope | more |
15 December 1996}} | Ian Dury | Macmillan Dictionary of Art | Mixing desk (solar-powered) | more |
22 December 1996}} | Jennifer Saunders | Traveller's Prelude by Freya Stark | Tribute Heads by Elisabeth Frink | more |
29 December 1996}} | Martin Amis | The Complete Works of John Milton | Cable television | more |
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
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5 January 1997}} | John Cleese | Stand By Your Man by Tammy Wynette | Michael Palin - stuffed | more |
26 January 1997}} | Irene Thomas | Complete score of Fidelio by Beethoven | Michael Palin - stuffed|Teddy bear stuffed with tea and lily of the valley}} | more |
2 February 1997}} | Gene Wilder | The Notebooks of Captain Georges by Jean Renoir | Earl 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 | Unpublished Notes by Athol Fugard | Telescope | more |
23 February 1997}} | Nico Ladenis | Beau Geste by P. C. Wren | Cantona's Manchester United football shirt|Cantona's Manchester United shirt}} | more |
2 March 1997}} | Dr. Susan|Greenfield|Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield}} | The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa | Endless supply of curry | more |
9 March 1997}} | Redmond O'Hanlon | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Pair of green, insulated Leica binoculars 8 X 20 | more |
16 March 1997}} | Nina Campbell | Photograph album | Bed | more |
23 March 1997}} | Peter Blake | Lemprieres' Dictionary by Lawrence Norfolk | Gym | more |
30 March 1997}} | Virginia Ironside | The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale | Big bag of plaster to make heads of friends | more |
20 April 1997}} | Saeed Jaffrey | The Complete Works of Mirza Ghalib | Case of Black Label and Dom Pérignon | more |
27 April 1997}} | Andy Hamilton | The Physics of Immortality by Frank J. Tipler | Football | more |
4 May 1997}} | Sir Martin Rees | Collective cartoons of Gary Larson | Jefferson reclining chair | more |
11 May 1997}} | David Wynne | The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer | Harmonica | 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 | Pencils and paper | more |
1 June 1997}} | Joanna MacGregor | The Sleep Walkers by Arthur Koestler | Sampler to record the noises of the island | more |
8 June 1997}} | Benjamin Zephaniah | Poetical Works of Shelley | Law 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 | The Complete Monty Python | Front seat of a Porsche | more |
31 August 1997}} | Cleo Laine | The Jazz Revolution by John Dankworth | Perfume | more |
7 September 1997}} | Sir Frank Kermode | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon | Samuel Palmer's painting Moonlit Landscape | more |
14 September 1997}} | Ursula Owen | The collected works of Anton Chekhov | Family photo album | more |
21 September 1997}} | Mike Leigh OBE | One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez | Lavatory and lavatory paper|Lavatory and lavatory paper}} | more |
28 September 1997}} | Peter O'Sullevan | Ends and Means by Aldous Huxley | Bottle of Calvados | more |
5 October 1997}} | Jools Holland | The Four Books of Architecture by Andrea Palladio | Piano | more |
12 October 1997}} | Rose Tremain | A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking | Word processor | more |
19 October 1997}} | Richard Rodney Bennett | The Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry by Edith Sitwell | 6mm 36 inch circular knitting needle with a point at each end | more |
26 October 1997}} | Richard Mabey | The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame | Guitar | more |
2 November 1997}} | John Julius Norwich | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon | Laptop computer | more |
9 November 1997}} | Anthony Minghella | Collected piano works by Bach | Piano | 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 | Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald | Pencil and paper | more |
14 December 1997}} | Chris Haskins | The collected works of Seán 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 | The History and Creation of a Japanese Sand Garden | Bath | more |
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
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4 January 1998}} | Professor Heinz|Wolff|Heinz Wolff}} | Collection of Landscape pictures (with book) | Collection of landscape pictures | more |
11 January 1998}} | Paul Hogarth | Times atlas of world history|The Times Atlas of World History}} | Solar-powered Apple Mac | more |
18 January 1998}} | John Tomlinson | Flora and Fauna of tropical desert island | A box of lenses | more |
25 January 1998}} | Helena Kennedy QC | Aeneid by Virgil | Goose down duvet | more |
1 February 1998}} | Colin Dexter | Aeneid|The collected works of A. E. Housman}} | Manicure set | more |
15 February 1998}} | Richard Noble | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Guitar | more |
22 February 1998}} | David Pountney | Anthology: The English Year by Geoffrey Grigson | Croquet lawn | more |
1 March 1998}} | Archie Norman MP | The Compleat 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 | Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter | Mrs Thatcher pickled in a Damien Hurst sculpture | more |
22 March 1998}} | Andrew Motion | Prelude by William Wordsworth | Pencils and paper | more |
29 March 1998}} | Alice Thomas Ellis | Come Hither - An Anthology by Walter de la Mare | Very comfortable sofa | more |
5 April 1998}} | Gavin Bryars | Science and Civilisation in China by Joseph Needham | Gravity chair | more |
12 April 1998}} | Dame Judi|Dench|Judi Dench}} | Ordnance Survey map of the world | The Man with a Glove, painting by Titian | more |
19 April 1998}} | Sir Terry Frost | Blank sheets to write his thoughts on imagination and memory | Mirror | more |
26 April 1998}} | Sir Ernest|Hall|Ernest Hall (businessman)}} | The collected works of William Blake | Piano | more |
3 May 1998}} | Susan Blackmore | Origin of Species by Charles Darwin | Handful of cannabis seeds | more |
10 May 1998}} | Antony Gormley | Principle of Hope by Ernst Bloch | Snorkel and mask | more |
17 May 1998}} | Sir David Willcocks | Book on astronomy | King's College Chapel | more |
24 May 1998}} | John Harle | The Aesthetics of Music by Roger Scruton | Lute and strings | more |
7 June 1998}} | Geoffrey Smith | History of viticulture, with instructions on how to make wine | Bundle of prunings from a good vineyard so he can plant his own vines | more |
14 June 1998}} | Bill Kenwright | Everton - The Complete Record by Steve Johnson | Guitar | more |
21 June 1998}} | John Bird | Encyclopaedia of London|The Encyclopaedia of London}} | Mont Blanc pen, notebook and ink | more |
28 June 1998}} | Jack Rosenthal | Finnegans Wake by James Joyce | Clay for making sculpture | more |
5 July 1998}} | Sybille Bedford | A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust | A French restaurant in full working order | more |
12 July 1998}} | Rt Hon Jack Straw MP | The Franco Prussian War - The German Invasion of France 1870-1871 by Michael Howard | Saxophone | more |
19 July 1998}} | Howard Brenton | The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer | Champagne | more |
26 July 1998}} | Chris De Burgh | Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner | Snorkel | more |
2 August 1998}} | Ralph Steadman | The New La Rousse Encyclopaedia of Mythology | Chisels | more |
9 August 1998}} | David Hempleman Adams | Jonathan Livingstone Seagull by Richard Bach | Saxophone | more |
16 August 1998}} | Les Murray | Blank, lined book|A blank, lined book}} | Marble four-poster bed | more |
23 August 1998}} | Ralph Koltai | French dictionary | Cigars | more |
30 August 1998}} | Lucy Gannon | The Faber Book of Reportage by John Carey | Jaguar 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 | Encyclopaeida Britannica|Encyclopædia Britannica on CD-ROM}} | Solar-powered laptop | more |
15 November 1998}} | Nicole Kidman | Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson | Sun block | more |
22 November 1998}} | Bill Morris | Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela | Cricket 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 | French-speaking man robot | more |
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|The Adventures of Alice by Lewis Carroll}} | Clarinet | more |
25 December 1998}} | Sir David|Attenborough|David Attenborough}} | Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life by W. B. Lord | Guitar | more |
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 | Collected works of Beatrix Potter | Wind-up video player | more |
24 January 1999}} | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | A chaise longue by a window | more |
31 January 1999}} | Bill Bryson | The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson | Basketball and hoop with a little hard standing | more |
7 February 1999}} | Andras Schiff | The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri | Piano | more |
14 February 1999}} | Nina Cassian | Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne | Cigarettes and whisky | more |
21 February 1999}} | Maria Ewing | Collected Poems of John Donne | Piano | more |
28 February 1999}} | Richard Curtis | Guinness Book of Pop | Pizza Express in Notting Hill | more |
7 March 1999}} | Sir Charles Mackerras | The Complete Works of Shakespeare|Translation of Shakespeare in either German, Italian or Czech}} | If a hot island - a huge bottle of suntan lotion and if a cold island - a pillow | more |
14 March 1999}} | Fay Maschler | Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons | Huge supply of ouzo | more |
21 March 1999}} | Rt Hon Mo Mowlam MP | The collected works of Seamus Heaney | Globe | more |
28 March 1999}} | Luise Rainer | The Proper Study of Mankind by Isaiah Berlin | To 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-creammore |
11 April 1999}} | Paco Peña | Anthology of poetry by Jose Bergua | Virtual reality module | more |
18 April 1999}} | Ken Loach | Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics by Francis Palgrave | Radio (for football results) | more |
25 April 1999}} | Stan Tracey | Crazy Like A Fox by S. J. Perelman | The film - Oh, Mr Porter! | more |
2 May 1999}} | Helen Bamber | Poet For Poet by Richard McCain | Radio to listen to the World Service | more |
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 | The Complete Works of Sigmund Freud | Digital TV | more |
23 May 1999}} | Christopher Bruce | Teach yourself French | Suncream | more |
30 May 1999}} | Anthony Howard | Dictionary of National Biography | Magnifying glass | more |
6 June 1999}} | Chris Bonington | History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Sir Winston Churchill | Power 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}} | Rt Hon Ann Widdecombe MP | Collected Poems of Thomas Gray | Hot shower | more |
4 July 1999}} | Igor Aleksander | Companions to the Mind by Richard Gregory | A virtual reality London Symphony Orchestra so he can conduct it | more |
11 July 1999}} | Paddy Moloney | The Book of Lempster (old Irish textbook currently in The Hague) | Tin whistle | more |
18 July 1999}} | Martin Pipe | Horse Management by R. S. Timmis | Winning post from Cheltenham race course | more |
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 | The collected works of John Donne | Tea service with tea | more |
15 August 1999}} | Sir Roger Norrington | The Complete Works of Thomas Hardy | Chocolate | 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 | The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay | Chisel for sculpting | more |
31 October 1999}} | Ralph Fiennes | A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust | Pen 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 | The Complete Works of Jorge Luis Borges | Junk 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|Richard Sykes (biochemist)}} | The Origin of Species|Origin of Species by Charles Darwin}} | Telescope | more |
12 December 1999}} | Oz Clarke | French Provincial Cookery by Elizabeth David | His memory | more |
19 December 1999}} | Michael Nyman | Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne | Toilet | more |
24 December 1999}} | Michael Crawford | The complete book of self-sufficiency by John Seymour | Pens and paper|Pen and paper}} | more |
31 December 1999}} | Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber | England's Thousand Best Churches by Simon Jenkins | Herb garden | more |
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
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9 January 2000}} | Dr. Jane|Goodall|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 | Italian leather hand-stitched hiking boots | more |
23 January 2000}} | Neil Jordan | Ulysses|A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust}} | Typewriter | more |
30 January 2000}} | Peter Melchett | Field guide to the island | Snorkel and mask | more |
6 February 2000}} | Simon Callow | Dictionary | Nose hair trimmer | more |
13 February 2000}} | Professor Stuart|Hall|Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)}} | Portrait of a Lady by Henry James | Piano | more |
20 February 2000}} | Michael Holroyd | The High Hill of the Muses (anthology by Hugh Kingsmill) | Waterbed | more |
27 February 2000}} | Sheila Hancock | Anything by Marcel Proust | Grand 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 | Anything by Michael Crichton | No luxury chosen | more |
19 March 2000}} | Al Alvarez | Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud | Laptop computer with poker game software | more |
26 March 2000}} | Adrian Noble | The Art of Memory by Frances A Yates | Wine | more |
2 April 2000}} | Harold Evans | History of the American Civil War by Shelby Foote | Silk pyjamas | more |
9 April 2000}} | Claire Tomalin | The Diary of Samuel Pepys|The Diary of Samuel Pepys}} | Garden | more |
16 April 2000}} | Sir Anthony|Caro|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|Peter Bonfield}} | A book on celestial navigation | Windsurfer | more |
7 May 2000}} | Sir John Mills | The Warden by Anthony Trollope | His piano | more |
14 May 2000}} | Kathleen Turner | Emma by Jane Austen | Roses|Roses}} | more |
21 May 2000}} | Dame Norma|Major|Norma Major}} | Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers | Solar laptop | more |
28 May 2000}} | John Bird | The collected works of Wallace Stevens | 2,000 soft loo rolls | more |
4 June 2000}} | Professor Géza|Vermes|Géza Vermes}} | The Complete Works of Flavius Josephus | Comfortable armchair/desk | [https://web.archive.org/web/20150612050327/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00949vh more] |
11 June 2000}} | Clive James | My Method of Singing by Enrico Caruso | Karoke piano|Karaoke piano}} | more |
18 June 2000}} | Donald Sutherland | Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuckman | Case of really good vintage wine | more |
25 June 2000}} | Max Perutz | Origin of Species by Charles Darwin | Skis | more |
2 July 2000}} | Peter Nichols | His diary (which he has kept since he was 18, to relive his life since 1945) | Cyanide 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 | Watercolour paint box plus brush and pads | more |
16 July 2000}} | Michael Portillo | Proust: Time Regained|Proust: Time Regained by Alain de Botton}} | Solar-powered laptop | more |
23 July 2000}} | Sir Roger Penrose | The biggest book by Michael Frayn | 19-note piano | more |
30 July 2000}} | General Sir Charles|Guthrie|Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank}} | Volume 1 of biography of the Duke of Wellington - Year of the Sword by Lady Longford | Surfboard | more |
6 August 2000}} | Sir Norman Wisdom | Reach for the Skies by Sir Douglas Bader | Pot of stew with two dumplings | more |
13 August 2000}} | Robert Swan | Huge copy of The Times atlas - largest available so he can see where he has been (168 countries so far) | An accountancy course | more |
20 August 2000}} | Christopher Lloyd | Letters of Gustave Flaubert | Syndicate whisky | more |
27 August 2000}} | Ronald Harwood | Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh | His bathroom | more |
5 November 2000}} | J K Rowling | SAS Survival Guide | Pen and unlimited paper | more |
19 November 2000}} | Des Lynam | Encyclopaedia of Natural Medicine | Drum kit | more |
26 November 2000}} | Albie Sachs | Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal | Little bottle of aftershave | more |
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 | Huge supply of Chardonnay | more |
24 December 2000}} | Professor Jocelyn Bell|Burnell|Jocelyn Bell Burnell}} | The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Book on how to sketch and some paper and pens | more |
26 December 2000}} | Norman|Painting}} | The Perennial Philosophy - Aldous Huxley | An orrary(sic) - an electronic toy for looking at the sky | more |
31 December 2000}} | Stephen Sondheim | The collected works of E. B. White | Piano | more |
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