The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites castaways to choose eight pieces of music, a book (in addition to the Bible – or a religious text appropriate to that person's beliefs – and the Complete Works of Shakespeare) and a luxury item that they would take to an imaginary desert island, where they will be marooned indefinitely. The rules state that the chosen luxury item must not be anything animate or indeed anything that enables the castaway to escape from the island, for instance a radio set, sailing yacht or aeroplane. The luxury was not introduced to the programme until after about 100 programmes and the book after about 400 programmes. The choices of book and luxury can sometimes give insight into the guest's life, and the choices of guests between 1951 and 1960 are listed here.
| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Portman | No book | No item | ||
| Monica Dickens | No book | No item | ||
| Robertson Hare | No book | No item | ||
| Yvonne Arnaud | No book | No item | ||
| Donald Peers | No book | No item | ||
| Peter Scott | No book | No item | ||
| Constance Cummings | No book | No item | ||
| Jack Buchanan | No book | No item | ||
| Kay Hammond | No book | No item | ||
| Peter Ustinov | No book | No item | ||
| Joan Hammond | No book | No item | ||
| John Clements | No book | No item | ||
| Ted Kavanagh | No book | No item | ||
| Anona Winn | No book | No item | ||
| Muir Mathieson | No book | No item | ||
| Peter Fleming | No book | No item | ||
| Margaret Lockwood | No book | Crossword puzzles | ||
| Petula Clark | No book | No item | ||
| Larry Adler | No book | No item | ||
| Denis Compton and Bill Edrich | No book | No item | ||
| Ann Todd | No book | No item | ||
| Maggie Teyte | No book | No item | ||
| Tommy Trinder | No book | No item | ||
| Gracie Fields | No book | No item | ||
| Eric Coates | No book | No item | ||
| Bill Johnson | No book | No item | ||
| Stanley Holloway | No book | No item | ||
| Cicely Courtneidge | No book | No item | ||
| Leslie Henson | No book | No item | ||
| Jean Kent | No book | No item | ||
| Jimmy Edwards | No book | Euphonium | ||
| Joyce Grenfell | No book | No item | ||
| A. E. Matthews | No book | No item | ||
| Phyllis Calvert | No book | No item | ||
| Vivian Ellis | No book | No item | ||
| Anne Crawford | No book | No item | ||
| Freddie Mills | No book | No item | ||
| Sally Ann Howes | No book | Garlic | ||
| George Robey | No book | No item | ||
| Mai Zetterling | No book | No item | ||
| Henry Kendall | Who's Who in the Theatre | No item | ||
| Gerald Moore | No book | A double bass | ||
| Clemence Dane | No book | No item | ||
| Ronald Shiner | No book | Any animal which he could train | ||
| Diana Wynyard | No book | El Medico by Goya | ||
| George Formby | No book | His first ukulele | ||
| Kathleen Harrison | The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens | No item | ||
| Elisabeth Schumann | No book | No item | ||
| John Mills | No book | No item | ||
| Vera Lynn | No book | Curling tongs |
| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Hulbert | No book | Cigarettes | ||
| Carroll Gibbons | No book | Music manuscript paper | ||
| Sybil Thorndike | No book | A blue vase, an engagement present | ||
| Spike Hughes | No book | A barrel of wine | ||
| Jeanne de Casalis | No book | A picture by Cézanne or a large feather bed | ||
| Peter Brough and Archie Andrews | No book | Golf clubs | ||
| Compton Mackenzie | No book | Four pipes and matches | ||
| Elizabeth Welch | No book | No item | ||
| Roger Livesey | No book | Golf clubs | ||
| Hermione Gingold | No book | A barrel of lipstick | ||
| Fred Emney | No book | A large box of cigars | ||
| Anna Neagle | No book | Tea | ||
| Richard Hearne | No book | No item | ||
| Wynford Vaughan-Thomas | No book | Combined radio and television receiver | ||
| Delia Murphy | No book | A still for making poteen | ||
| Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne | No book | Murdoch – A test-your-strength fairground machine Horne – a mah-jong set | ||
| Kirsten Flagstad | No book | Knitting needles and wool | ||
| Fay Compton | No book | Her two dogs | ||
| Robert Beatty | No book | No item | ||
| Dorothy Dickson | No book | No item | ||
| Gilbert Harding | No book | A Kelly Man | ||
| Googie Withers | No book | A jade amulet | ||
| Godfrey Winn | No book | A pack of cards for bridge | ||
| Ellaline Terriss | No book | A piano | ||
| Boyd Neel | No book | A gramophone for slow-playing records | ||
| Fred Perry | No book | Radio transmitter | ||
| Henry Hall | No book | A watch | ||
| Gladys Cooper | No book | No item | ||
| Christopher Stone | No book | A good soft bed | ||
| Joan Greenwood | No book | Cigarettes | ||
| Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray | No book | Denison – a raft (to fish) Gray – a large supply of insecticide | ||
| Trevor Howard | No book | One of his wife's cakes | ||
| Anne Shelton | Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl | The little cross that hangs over her bed | ||
| Richard Attenborough | No book | Set of record catalogues | ||
| Vivien Leigh | No book | A piano | ||
| Ted Ray | No book | A dozen hairnets | ||
| Winifred Atwell | No book | A comb (for hair and making comb and paper music) | ||
| Esmond Knight | The Story of Art by Ernst Gombrich | No item | ||
| Binnie Hale | No book | A piano | ||
| Joy Worth | No book | A very expensive piece of jewellery | ||
| Florence Desmond | No book | Family photograph album | ||
| W. J. MacQueen-Pope | No book | One of his lucky charms | ||
| Tessie O'Shea | No book | Her ukulele | ||
| Nigel Patrick | No book | His 'useless' dog | ||
| Ada Reeve | No book | A workbox for embroidery | ||
| Sonnie Hale | No book | Scented Soap | ||
| Gordon Harker | No book | A camera and lots of film | ||
| Bill Greenslade | No book | No item | ||
| Joy Nichols | No book | A mink sleeping bag |
| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilfred Pickles | The Oxford Book of English Verse | His yellow waistcoat | |
| Margaret Rutherford | No book | A bejewelled golden comb | |
| Ralph Lynn | No book | His eyeglass | |
| Belita | No book | An encyclopedia | |
| Duncan Carse | No book | A pin-up picture | |
| Donald Wolfit | The Bible | A violin with instruction book | |
| Jean Carson | No book | An umbrella | |
| David Tomlinson | No book | Eddie Gray's juggling equipment | |
| Sheila Sim | No book | A clock | |
| Richard Todd | No book | No item | |
| Pamela Brown | No book | Encyclopædia Britannica | |
| Max Miller | No book | A double pack of cards | |
| Moira Lister | A book about astronomy | A guitar | |
| Webster Booth | No book | An ivory pig – his lucky charm | |
| Yolande Donlan | A Mediterranean cookbook | No item | |
| Norman Wisdom | No book | Motor car and petrol | |
| Isabel Jeans | No book | Her St Christopher's Medal | |
| John Arlott | No book | The biggest second-hand bookshop in the world | |
| Jack Hawkins | No book | No item | |
| Naunton Wayne | No book | No item | |
| Arthur Wint | No book | No item | |
| Pamela Kellino | Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert | No item | |
| Sir Ralph Richardson | No book | His pipe | |
| Robert Helpmann | No book | A box of paints | |
| Leo Genn | No book | A chess set with a book of problems | |
| Lizbeth Webb | No book | Nicholas, her three-inch-tall boy mascot | |
| Geraldine McEwan | No book | A box of watercolours | |
| Cecil Parker | Oxford Book of Quotations | No item | |
| Brian Reece | No book | A ventriloquist's dummy | |
| Cyril Ritchard | No book | A photograph of his wife, Madge Elliott | |
| Nora Swinburne | The Bible | Her make-up box and contents | |
| Hugh Williams | No book | A corkscrew | |
| Alfredo Campoli | No book | A football | |
| Leslie A "Hutch" Hutchinson | An anthology of world poetry | No item | |
| Hugh Sinclair | No book | No item | |
| Peggy Cummins | No book | A painting of circus horses by Toulouse-Lautrec | |
| Jack Warner | No book | A blue silk scarf | |
| Bernard Miles | The complete works of Shakespeare | No item | |
| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Ellis | No book | A keg of eau de Cologne | ||
| Vivian De Gurr St George | No book | A picture of his wife | ||
| Jessie Matthews | No book | An enormous bottle of perfume | ||
| John Betjeman | No book | The lower half of the west window of St Marys Church, Fairford, Gloucestershire | ||
| T. E. B. Clarke | Ruff's Guide to the Turf | No item | ||
| Valerie Hobson | No book | The Albert Memorial | ||
| Nigel Balchin | No book | A figure of an urchin, sculpted by Donatello | ||
| Evelyn Laye | No book | Her bed, complete with big French pillows | ||
| Robert Henriques | No book | Oil paints | ||
| Celia Johnson | A book on astronomy | A rose cutting and some English soil | ||
| Captain M. E. B. Banks RM | No book | A painting of mushrooms by William Nicholson | ||
| Reginald Dixon | No book | A harmonium | ||
| Fred Hoyle | No book | A large photo of a lot of people at a race meeting | ||
| Margaret Leighton | No book | Girl Guide camp bed | ||
| Dorothy Ward | No book | A make-up box | ||
| Bobby Howes | No book | Red and white wine |
| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dorothy Tutin | No book | Piano | more | ||
| Sir Cedric Hardwicke | No book | Newspaper | more | ||
| Harriet Cohen | No book | Box of make-up | more | ||
| Eric Ambler | No book | Novelist | more | ||
| Robert Harris | No book | Tuning fork | more | ||
| Sir Osbert Lancaster | No book | Venus de Milo | more | ||
| Chris Chataway | No book | Underwater breathing apparatus | more | ||
| Pat Smythe | No book | Guitar | more | ||
| Pat Kirkwood | No book | Gardenia bush | more | ||
| Sir Alan P Herbert | No book | Field glasses | more | ||
| Tod Slaughter | No book | Harmonica | more | ||
| Arthur Askey | No book | Piano | more | ||
| Sir Malcolm Sargent | No book | Hot water bottle or ice machine | more | ||
| Anthony Asquith | No book | Seaside pier with slot machines | more | ||
| Tommy Farr | No book | Longest bar of soap in the world | more | ||
| Barbara Kelly | No book | Beach ball | more | ||
| Emlyn Williams | No book | Encyclopaedia | more | ||
| Tony Mottram | No book | Writing paper and pencils | more | ||
| Nicholas Monsarrat | No book | Autographed letters of Lord Nelson | more | ||
| Michael Redgrave | No book | Pipes and matches | more | ||
| Yehudi Menuhin | No book | Violin and strings | more | ||
| Lionel Gamlin | No book | Back number of The New Yorker | more | ||
| Ursula Jeans | No book | Suntan lotion | more | ||
| Edward Allcard | No book | Five ton block of lead as keel for schooner | more | ||
| Isobel Baillie | No book | Tea | more | ||
| Michael Ayrton | No book | An ancient Greek sculpture | more | ||
| Claire Bloom | No book | N/A | more | ||
| R C Sherriff | No book | Scotch whisky | more | ||
| Herbert Wilcox | No book | Toothbrush and toothpaste | more | ||
| Eileen Joyce | No book | Encyclopaedia | more | ||
| Philip Harben | No book | Field glasses | more | ||
| Leslie Welch | No book | Bed | more | ||
| John Gregson | No book | Guitar | more | ||
| Max Bygraves | No book | Golf clubs | more | ||
| James Robertson Justice | No book | Mixed flower seeds | more | ||
| Sidonie Goossens | No book | Handbag | more | ||
| Frances Day | No book | Piano | more | ||
| Valentine Dyall | No book | Trumpet | more | ||
| Vic Oliver | No book | Music manuscript paper | more | ||
| Beverley Nichols | No book | Oil painting equipment | more | ||
| Jack Train | No book | Rose bush | more | ||
| Bernard Braden | No book | Pair of wife's earrings | more | ||
| Bob Monkhouse and Denis Goodwin | Encyclopædia Britannica | Large coloured picture of Marilyn Monroe | more | ||
| Sir Anton Dolin | No book | Photo album | more |
| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laurence Harvey | The Complete Works of Shakespeare | Barrel of wine | more | ||
| Sam Costa | No book | Painting from the National Gallery | more | ||
| Dora Bryan | No book | Stereoscope with slides of her family | more | ||
| David Nixon | Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll | Photograph of his wife and baby son | more | ||
| Terry-Thomas | No book | Horse saddle | more | ||
| Robert Fabian | No book | Umbrella | more | ||
| Kenneth More | The Complete Works of Shakespeare | English rock garden | more | ||
| Nancy Spain | Fifth Form of St. Dominic's by Talbot Baines | No item | more | ||
| Donald Sinden | The Complete Works of Shakespeare | Lucky charm | more | ||
| Vanessa Lee | Encyclopædia Britannica | Clock | more | ||
| Cyril Smith | No book | Cards | more | ||
| Bebe Daniels | No book | Typewriter and paper | more | ||
| Stan Kenton | The Mature Mind by H. L. Overstreet | Unknown | more | ||
| Marie Burke | Large book of short stories | Tea | more | ||
| John Neville | No book | Landscape painting by Ivor Hitchins | more | ||
| Athene Seyler | No book | Six feet of English hedgerow | more | ||
| Len Harvey | No book | Box of books | more | ||
| Dora Labbette | No book | Paper and pencils | more | ||
| David Hughes | Encyclopædia Britannica | Golf clubs | more | ||
| Robert Atkins | No book | Live performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream from the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre | more | ||
| Stirling Moss | No book | Hair restorer | more | ||
| Ted Heath | No book | Racing form books | more | ||
| Eartha Kitt | Her autobiography | No item | more | ||
| Eric Maschwitz | No book | Botticelli's Primavera | more | ||
| Leslie Caron | No book | Artist's materials | more | ||
| Jim Laker | No book | Cricket ball and a piano | more | ||
| Eva Turner | No book | Dresden | more | ||
| Tex Ritter | No book | Cards and a guitar | more | ||
| Shirley Abicair | No book | Case of avocado pears | more | ||
| Peter Ustinov | Encyclopaedia | Tennis racket | more | ||
| Dennis Brain | Back number of motor magazines | Typewriter and paper | more | ||
| Dennis Price | Volume of Giles cartoons | Painting materials | more | ||
| Bernard Newman | No book | Atlas | more | ||
| Humphrey Lyttelton | No book | Trumpet | more | ||
| Harry Secombe | No book | Collapsible concrete model of Broadcasting House with plastic announcers etc. | more | ||
| Valentine Britten | No book | Photograph of Battersea Power Station | more | ||
| Turner Layton | No book | Piano | more | ||
| Kenneth Tynan | No book | Pleasure gardens of Barcelona | more | ||
| Ada Cherry Kearton | No book | Cards | more | ||
| Peter Katin | No book | Painting of the Virgin of the Rocks | more | ||
| Anthony Steel | No book | Portrait of his wife by Annigoni | more | ||
| Isobel Barnett | No book | Hot water bottle | more | ||
| Donald Campbell | No book | Cigarettes | more | ||
| Dennis Noble | No book | Binoculars | more | ||
| Malcolm Muggeridge | No book | Paper and pencils | more | ||
| John Watt | No book | Thermos flask | more | ||
| Spike Milligan | No book | Barometer | more | ||
| Eight inhabitants from the Ascension Islands in the South Atlantic | No book | Unknown | more | ||
| Peter Finch | Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes | Painting materials | more | ||
| Janette Scott | No book | Complete glamour outfit | more | ||
| Tyrone Power | No book | Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks | more |
| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Cansdale | No book | Field glasses | more | ||
| Gerard Hoffnung | No book | His paintbox and tuba | more | ||
| Dilys Powell | No book | Paper and pencils | more | ||
| Zena Dare | No book | Mink coat | more | ||
| Peter Sellers | The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens | Snorkel outfit | more | ||
| Peggy Ashcroft | No book | Frogwoman's outfit | more | ||
| Jack Solomons | No book | Punchbag | more | ||
| Edgar Lustgarten | No book | Woman's evening gown | more | ||
| Anthony Quayle | No book | Writing materials | more | ||
| Elizabeth Bowen | Emma by Jane Austen | Kaledioscope | more | ||
| Alan Melville | No book | Tennis practice wall, rackets and balls | more | ||
| Bud Flanagan | No book | Premium bonds | more | ||
| Chris Brasher | No book | Sailing dinghy | more | ||
| Cicely Courtneidge | No book | Family photograph album | more | ||
| Ralph Wightman | No book | Pipe cleaners | more | ||
| Tommy Steele | Do-it-yourself book | No item | more | ||
| Gwen Catley | No book | Painting of London to be commissioned from Graham Sutherland | more | ||
| David Attenborough | No book | Piano | more | ||
| Rawicz & Landauer | Biographies of composers | Soap | more | ||
| Dick Bentley | No book | Champagne-making kit | more | ||
| Victor Borge | No book | Not paying tax or insurance | more | ||
| Alec Robertson | Anthology of poetry | China cat | more | ||
| Count Basie | No book | Picture of his family with a New York City background | more | ||
| Percy Edwards | No book | John Constable's painting of Willy Lott's cottage | more | ||
| Mantovani | No book | Music manuscript paper, pencils and rubber | more | ||
| Harold Hobson | No book | Cricket bat | more | ||
| Tamara Karsavina | No book | Wooden statue of St Florian | more | ||
| Fred Streeter | Gardening dictionary | Greenhouse for growing orchids | more | ||
| Blanche Thebom | No book | Jewelled gold statuette of St George and the Dragon from the Shutzkammar, Munich | more | ||
| Audrey Russell | No book | Astronomical telescope | more | ||
| Tony Hancock | No book | Television set | more | ||
| Owen Berry | No book | Photograph of Granny Grove | more | ||
| Leopold Stokowski | No book | Tape recorder | more | ||
| David Farrar | No book | Golf clubs and balls | more | ||
| Alma Cogan | No book | Paper, pencils and paints | more | ||
| Eric Barker | No book | Cricket bowling machine | more | ||
| C A Lejeune | No book | Soil and rose bushes | more | ||
| Christopher Stone | No book | Paper and fountain pen | more | ||
| Marius Goring | No book | Piano | more | ||
| Moura Lympany | A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust | Flower seeds | more | ||
| John Dankworth | Cricket annuals from 1920 onwards | Saxophone | more | ||
| Commander Ibbett | No book | Barrel of beer | more | ||
| Belinda Lee | No book | Language teaching records for all languages | more | ||
| Bransby Williams | No book | Paper and pencils | more | ||
| Jack Teagarden | No book | Trombone and materials for making a crystal radio | more | ||
| Joan Cross | No book | Cards | more | ||
| James Fisher | No book | Field glasses and modern plumbing | more | ||
| Moira Shearer | No book | Champagne | more | ||
| Eric Sykes | No book | Typewriter and paper | more | ||
| Earl Hines | No book | Piano | more | ||
| Sir Thomas Beecham | No book | Havana cigars | more | ||
| Lupino Lane | No book | Camera | more |
| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wendy Toye | No book | Framed Ronald Searle drawings | more | ||
| Lionel Hale | No book | Model theatre | more | ||
| Max Jaffa | No book | Violin and champagne | more | ||
| Victor Silvester | No book | Piano | more | ||
| Anton Walbrook | No book | Indo-Chinese Buddha | more | ||
| Rex Palmer | No book | Alcohol | more | ||
| Ben Lyon | No book | Film projector and films of his family | more | ||
| Margaret Rawlings | No book | Tapestry-making kit | more | ||
| Michael Flanders and Donald Swann | No book | Two pianos | more | ||
| Beryl Grey | No book | Swedish wooden horse | more | ||
| Frankie Vaughan | No book | Painting materials | more | ||
| Flora Robson | No book | Sunbathing oil | more | ||
| Geraldo | No book | Piano | more | ||
| Ian Carmichael | No book | Writing materials and beer | more | ||
| Cleo Laine | No book | Perfume | more | ||
| Billy Mayerl | No book | Well-stocked bar | more | ||
| Ruby Miller | A novel by Somerset Maugham | Perfume | more | ||
| Oliver Messel | No book | Painting materials | more | ||
| Roy Plomley | No book | Desk with typewriter and paper | more | ||
| Agnes Nicholls | Illustrated dictionary | Perfume | more | ||
| Kay Smart | No book | Champagne | more | ||
| Eric Robinson | No book | £1 million in pound notes | more | ||
| Naomi Jacob | No book | Soap | more | ||
| Jean Sablon | No book | Menu from Maxim's restaurant in Paris | more | ||
| Derek McCulloch | Encyclopaedia | Inflatable pillow | more | ||
| Sarah Vaughan | No book | Golf clubs and balls | more | ||
| Tito Gobbi | No book | Expensive ivory back-scratcher | more | ||
| Wilfrid Hyde-White | No book | Picture of Charlie Chaplin and model of a Rolls-Royce | more | ||
| Jean Pougnet | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Cask of brandy | more | ||
| Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | French cookery book | Suntan oil | more | ||
| Eamonn Andrews | Collected short stories of Somerset Maugham | Field glasses | more | ||
| Elsie and Doris Waters | The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith | Sunshade and garbage disposal unit | more | ||
| Dr Ludwig Koch | No book | Hans Christian Andersen's mechanical bird and birdcage | more | ||
| Hephzibah Menuhin | No book | Chinese language course | more | ||
| Jack Payne | No book | Piano | more | ||
| Percy Kahn | No book | Tape recorder | more | ||
| Dickie Henderson | No book | Cine projector and films | more | ||
| Alicia Markova | No book | Perfume | more | ||
| Hardy Amies | No book | Dressing case | more | ||
| Harry Belafonte | No book | Michelangelo's David | more | ||
| Richard Dimbleby | No book | Piano | more | ||
| Elizabeth Seal | No book | Tea | more | ||
| Benno Moiseiwitsch | No book | Roulette table | more | ||
| Edmundo Ros | No book | Film projector and films | more | ||
| Elena Gerhardt | A philosophical work by Johann Wolfgang Goethe | Tapestry-making kit | more | ||
| June Paul | No book | Painting by Gauguin | more | ||
| G H Elliott | No book | Waistcoat (his mascot since 1903) | more | ||
| Paul Robeson | No book | Carved Benin head | more | ||
| Stanley Black | No book | Piano | more | ||
| Aaron Copland | No book | Chess set | more | ||
| Charlie Drake | Encyclopaedia | Regency candelabra | more | ||
| Sandy MacPherson | No book | Radio set | more |
| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ronnie Boyer and Jeanne Ravel | Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill and Encyclopaedia | Soap and white tie and tails | more | ||
| Ronald Searle | Reproductions of works by James Gillray | Car fitted with a telescope | more | ||
| John Osborne | No book | Perfume | more | ||
| Frederick Ashton | No book | Happy pills | more | ||
| June Thorburn | No book | Mink stole | more | ||
| Chris Barber | No book | Sports car and petrol | more | ||
| John Morris | The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Soap and a piano | more | ||
| Peter Cushing | No book | Painting materials and model soldiers | more | ||
| Cyril Fletcher | No book | Tape recorder | more | ||
| Judy Grinham | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Typewriter and paper | more | ||
| Ernest Thesiger | No book | Painting materials | more | ||
| Malcolm Arnold | Oxford Book of English Verse | Green Havana cigars | more | ||
| Laurens van der Post | The Odyssey by Homer | Piano | more | ||
| Sylvia Syms | Her husband's handwritten limericks | Tapestry-making materials | more | ||
| Edric Connor | Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton | Toothbrush | more | ||
| Tyrone Guthrie | Anthology of poetry, some in French and German | Rum | more | ||
| Marjorie Westbury | The Golden Bough by James Frazer | Blue-green silk robe with packets of flower seeds in the pockets | more | ||
| Lord Brabazon of Tara | The Human Situation by MacNeill Dixon | Hot water bottle | more | ||
| Ray Ellington | David Copperfield by Charles Dickens | Bed with mosquito net | more | ||
| Dame Rebecca West | The plays of Jean Racine | Carved stone head of a Chinese philosopher | more | ||
| Alfred Marks | Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll | Telephone (out of service) | more | ||
| Robert Farnon | Optics by Isaac Newton | Telescope | more | ||
| Henry Sherek | Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens | Epstein statue | more | ||
| Lotte Lehmann | Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe | Paintbox | more | ||
| Uffa Fox | Anthology of world poetry | Painting materials | more | ||
| Hermione Baddeley | The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame | Painting by Renoir | more | ||
| Harold Abrahams | Book of Quotations by Burton Egbert Stevenson | Mircofilm of Bell's life | more | ||
| George Melachrino | The works of Plato | Turkish delight | more | ||
| Ivor Newton | London telephone directory | Champagne | more | ||
| BC Hilliam | The Gilbert and Sullivan Book by Leslie Baily | Whisky | more | ||
| Norman Fisher | The dialogues of Plato | Writing materials | more | ||
| Bessie Love | The drawings of Fougasse | Eau de Cologne | more | ||
| Charles Mackerras | Foreign translation of a long English novel | Wine | more | ||
| John Snagge | The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovannino Guareschi | Painting by Rembrandt | more | ||
| Sir Leonard Hutton | History of cricket | Golf clubs and balls | more | ||
| Douglas Byng | The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald | Photographs | more | ||
| Peggy Cochrane | The Week-End Book | Piano | more | ||
| Frankie Howerd | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Photographs | more | ||
| Robertson Hare | His autobiography | Telescope | more | ||
| Dave Brubeck | Encyclopaedia | Piano | more | ||
| Alfred Hitchcock | Mrs Beeton's Household Management | Continental railway timetable | more | ||
| George Thalben-Ball | Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome | White rug | more | ||
| Steve Race | The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne | Chess set | more | ||
| Sir Arthur Bliss | Works on astronomy | Telescope | more | ||
| Benny Hill | Collection of language courses | Film camera | more | ||
| Joan Sutherland | Memoirs of Jenny Lind by Otto Goldschmidt | Bed | more | ||
| Billy Cotton | Two historical novels | Ticket home | more | ||
| John Paddy Carstairs | Roget's Thesaurus | Piano | more | ||
| Andor Foldes | Anthology of English Verse by Edith Sitwell | The Dürer | more | ||
| Eve Boswell | Book on one of the world's philosophies | Piano | more | ||
| Ted Moult | The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens | Drawing equipment | more |
| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S P B Mais | Original Greek works by Homer | Writing materials | more | ||
| Semprini | The Nature of the Physical World by Sir Arthur Eddington | Telescope | more | ||
| Joan Heal | The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde | Insecticide | more | ||
| Antonia Ridge | The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer | Unbreakable spectacles | more | ||
| Barrington Dalby | Book on tropical birds | Binoculars | more | ||
| Herbert Lom | Nonsense rhymes by Edward Lear | Modelling clay | more | ||
| Léon Goossens | Nautical almanac | Camp bed | more | ||
| Sir Arthur Bryant | Life of Johnson by James Boswell | Painting by Kneller of a girl in a golden gown | more | ||
| Jack Jackson | Do-it-yourself boat-building book | Television set | more | ||
| Marty Wilde | Jane's All the World's Aircraft | Guitar | more | ||
| Russ Conway | Omnibus edition of Hornblower stories by C. S. Forester | Typewriter and paper | more | ||
| Michael Somes | Theatre Street by Tamara Karsavina | Telescope | more | ||
| Sir Adrian Boult | Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan | Blanket | more | ||
| Sidney James | Encyclopædia Britannica | Double bed | more | ||
| John Freeman | Oxford English Dictionary | Typewriter | more | ||
| Anne Heywood | What Then Must We Do by Leo Tolstoy | Painting materials | more | ||
| Anthony Newley | Volume of short stories | Writing materials | more | ||
| David Langdon | The novels of Charles Dickens | Piano | more | ||
| Shirley Bassey | Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe | Lipsticks | more | ||
| Brian Rix | The plays of George Bernard Shaw | Tape recorder | more | ||
| Liberace | The Magic of Believing by Claude M Bristol | Piano | more | ||
| Marie Rambert | Paradise Lost by John Milton | Writing materials | more | ||
| Dickie Henderson | How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time | Golf clubs and balls | more | ||
| Professor A C B Lovell | Book on musical theory and composition | Piano/organ hybrid | more | ||
| Julian Slade | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Violin | more | ||
| Sir Alec Guinness | Paradise Lost by John Milton | Apricot brandy | more | ||
| Claudio Arrau | The works of Johann Wolfgang Goethe | Early Chinese statuette | more | ||
| Eddie Calvert | Piano tutor | Piano | more | ||
| C Day-Lewis | The novels of Jane Austen | Wine | more | ||
| Antal Doráti | Personally-compiled anthology | Painting of a sleeping girl by Dominico Feti | more | ||
| Johnny Morris | Finnegans Wake by James Joyce | Yeast | more | ||
| Lord Boothby | The short stories of Somerset Maugham | Golf clubs and balls | more | ||
| Danny Blanchflower | The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell | Golf clubs and balls | more | ||
| Pat Suzuki | Encyclopædia Britannica | Cosmetics | more | ||
| Godfrey Talbot | Critical and Historical Essays by Thomas Macaulay | Writing materials | more | ||
| Paul Beard | Droll Stories by Honoré de Balzac | Golf clubs and balls | more | ||
| Gladys Young | London Belongs to Me by Norman Collins | Pairs of spectacles | more | ||
| Michaela and Armand Denis | Encyclopædia Britannica and a book on mathematics | Diamond ring and a loud hailer | more | ||
| Lionel Bart | Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas | Nelson's Column | more | ||
| Diane Cilento | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger | Painting materials | more | ||
| Alec Bedser | Set of Wisden | Razor | more | ||
| Sidney Torch | Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome | Golf clubs and balls | more | ||
| Ernest Lough | Manual on astronomy | Radio receiver | more | ||
| Cliff Richard | The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss | Guitar | more | ||
| Frederick Grisewood | Phantastes by George MacDonald | Compendium of parlour games | more | ||
| Ursula Bloom | Book of Common Prayer | Writing materials | more | ||
| Edmund Hockridge | Encyclopædia Britannica | Painting materials | more | ||
| Frank Muir and Denis Norden | Cookery book and A Treasury of Ribaldry by Louis Untermeyer | Stradivarius violin and model of the Tower of London | more | ||
| Oda Slobodskaya | The plays of Sheridan | Radio receiver | more | ||
| Don Thompson | English Social History by G. M. Trevelyan | Clarinet | more | ||
| Harry Mortimer | The Saint by Leslie Charteris | Cine camera | more | ||
| Dave King | English dictionary | Football | more |