The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites castaways to choose eight pieces of music, a book (in addition to the Bible - or a religious text appropriate to that person's beliefs - and the Complete Works of Shakespeare) and a luxury item that they would take to an imaginary desert island, where they will be marooned indefinitely. The rules state that the chosen luxury item must not be anything animate or indeed anything that enables the castaway to escape from the island, for instance a radio set, sailing yacht or aeroplane. The choices of book and luxury can sometimes give insight into the guest's life, and the choices of guests between 1971 and 1980 are listed here.
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| English Dictionary | Guitar | more | ||||
| Encyclopedia | Painting materials | more | ||||
| Novels of P. G. Wodehouse | Writing materials | more | ||||
| The Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes | Piano | more | ||||
| The Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry by Edith Sitwell | Materials for making wine or beer | more | ||||
| Oxford Book of English Verse | Model-making tools | more | ||||
| A selection to sample | Radio receiver | more | ||||
| Complete works of Oscar Wilde | Toothbrushes | more | ||||
| Poems of Rabindranath Tagore | Perfume | more | ||||
| Poems of George Herbert and John Donne | Tartar sauce | more | ||||
| The Spotlight casting directory | His Bentley car | more | ||||
| The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations | Four-poster bed | more | ||||
| The Godfather by Mario Puzo | Prawn cocktails | more | ||||
| His own book My World of Theatre | Picture of his family | more | ||||
| A set of Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks | Telephone line to a sports newspaper | more | ||||
| Cookery encyclopedia | Family photograph | more | ||||
| The Road to Xanadu by John Livingston Lowes | Razor | more | ||||
| Cookery book | Make-up box | more | ||||
| Back numbers of the Reader's Digest | Organ | more | ||||
| Collected poems of John Betjeman | René Magritte's The Empire of Light | more | ||||
| Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy | Writing materials | more | ||||
| Handbook on tropical vegetation | Golf clubs and balls | more | ||||
| Encyclopedia | Writing materials and playing cards | more | ||||
| Oxford Book of English Verse | Piano | more | ||||
| Encyclopedia | Soap | more | ||||
| Palgrave's Golden Treasury | Writing materials | more | ||||
| A Book of Beauty by John Hadfield | Cherry tree | more | ||||
| Come Hither by Walter de la Mare | Magnifying glass | more | ||||
| Vincent Price's Cookery Book | Life-sized model of Margaret Thatcher and a baseball bat | more | ||||
| Oxford Book of English Verse | Buddhist altar in the British Museum | more | ||||
| Collected works of Epictetus | Chess set with a problem book | more | ||||
| Collected works of Jane Austen | Writing materials | more | ||||
| Michelin Guide to France | Pin | more | ||||
| Volumes on astronomy and astrology | Forty yards of flowered chintz, a needle & cotton | more | ||||
| Book from his library | Revolver | more | ||||
| Persuasion by Jane Austen | Queen Mary's Dolls' House | more | ||||
| Volume on Elementary Calculus | The Black Prince Steam Locomotive, canvases and oil paint | more | ||||
| Do-it-yourself manual | Binoculars | more | ||||
| In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust | Typewriter and paper | more | ||||
| Novels by James A. Michener | English pub | more | ||||
| War and Peace and Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy | Refrigerator | more | ||||
| London Sparrow by Phyllis Thompson | Piano | more | ||||
| History of England by Keith Feiling | Canvas and tapestry tools | more | ||||
| Novels by Georgette Heyer | Self-portrait painted by his wife | more | ||||
| Autobiography of Winston Churchill | Piano, manuscript paper, pencils and a rubber | more | ||||
| The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien | Hot water and bath oil | more | ||||
| Lieder by Franz Schubert | Bavarian rococo church | more | ||||
| Dictionary of Musical Themes | Binoculars | more | ||||
| Encyclopaedia of Ancient Civilisations | Wine | more | ||||
| Illustrated Herbal | Dart board and darts of different weights | more | ||||
| Elizabeth R | Seeds | more | ||||
| Set of Hansard | Paper and felt-tipped pens | more |
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| Cookery book | Writing materials | more | ||||
| Encyclopædia Britannica | Refrigerator | more | ||||
| Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne | Jeroboam of Taittinger Champagne | more | ||||
| Teach yourself piano tuning | Piano | more | ||||
| Complete works of Oscar Wilde | Soap | more | ||||
| Route 69 by Floyd Carter | Paper, pencils and a battery-operated sharpener | more | ||||
| Les Misérables by Victor Hugo | Bed | more | ||||
| Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway | Typewriter and paper | more | ||||
| Guinness World Records | more | |||||
| Iliad and Odyssey by Homer | Gin, Dry Martini and lemons | more | ||||
| Poetry by W. B. Yeats | Wood and stone-carving tools | more | ||||
| Survival manual | John Constable landscape | more | ||||
| Scotch Whisky | more | |||||
| by Emlyn Williams | 12th-century candlestick in Victoria and Albert Museum | more | ||||
| by J. R. R. Tolkien | Spanish guitar | more | ||||
| Diary of a Country Parson by James Woodforde | more | |||||
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| Encyclopedia | Writing materials | more | ||||
| Encyclopedia of Gardening | Golf clubs and balls | more | ||||
| Collected works of James Joyce | Yellow Lamborghini | more | ||||
| by J. R. R. Tolkien | Crystal rock specimens | more | ||||
| Complete works of Leonardo da Vinci | Painting materials | more | ||||
| 48 Preludes and Fugues by Johann Sebastian Bach | Piano | more | ||||
| Oxford English Dictionary | Tape recorder | more | ||||
| Book of Kells | Basil Brush films and projector | more | ||||
| Dictionary of National Biography | Typewriter, paper and a hostess gown | more | ||||
| Anthology of English Verse | Cigars | more | ||||
| by Henry Watson Fowler | Aspirin | more | ||||
| by Hendrik Willem van Loon | Radio receiver | more | ||||
| Painting materials | more | |||||
| by Johann David Wyss | Binoculars | more | ||||
| by Charles Dickens | Malt whisky and drawing paper | more | ||||
| Atlas | Koh-i-Noor diamond | more | ||||
| Book on plant genetics | Still | more | ||||
| Encyclopædia Britannica | Golf clubs and balls | more | ||||
| by Henry Watson Fowler | Padded deckchair | more | ||||
| In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust | Two armchairs | more | ||||
| Encyclopædia Britannica | Piano | more | ||||
| Do it yourself manual | Painting materials | more | ||||
| Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen | Painting materials | more | ||||
| History of the World | Piano | more | ||||
| by J. R. R. Tolkien | Still | more | ||||
| and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain | Spyglass | more | ||||
| Diaries of Francis Kilvert | Spyglass | more | ||||
| Encyclopædia Britannica | Stamp album | more | ||||
| Encyclopædia Britannica | Sun-barrier cream and a straw hat | more | ||||
| Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell | Telephone | more | ||||
| Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe | more | |||||
| History of the United States | Crochet needles and wool | more | ||||
| Prefaces by George Bernard Shaw | Golf clubs and balls | more | ||||
| I Ching | Snorkel | more | ||||
| Anthology of Poetry and Novels by Charlotte Brontë | Piano and sheet music | more | ||||
| Survival manual | Harpsichord | more |
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| Language courses | Scotch and Champagne | more | ||||
| Volume of colour reproductions of paintings | Daily newspaper | more | ||||
| Encyclopædia Britannica | Family photograph | more | ||||
| Encyclopædia Britannica | Moët & Chandon Champagne 1966 | more | ||||
| Atlas | Sketching materials | more | ||||
| Anthology of Poetry | Oil-painting equipment | more | ||||
| Diary by Samuel Pepys | Small distillery | more | ||||
| Sand iron and golf balls | more | |||||
| by Gustav Kobbé | Piano | more | ||||
| OM | Volume of colour reproductions of paintings | Binoculars | more | |||
| In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust | Piano | more | ||||
| Collected works by Michel de Montaigne | Duvet | more | ||||
| Diary by Samuel Pepys | Equipment for winemaking and brewing | more | ||||
| Cartoons by Carl Giles | Accordion | more | ||||
| by Charles Dickens | Cards | more | ||||
| by Winston Churchill | Radio receiver | more | ||||
| Novels by Jean Plaidy | Brandy | more | ||||
| Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss | more | |||||
| Plato's dialogues | Havana cigars | more | ||||
| Come Hither by Walter de la Mare | Dummy piano keyboard | more | ||||
| Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | Four-poster bed | more | ||||
| Papillon by Henri Charrière | Chess set | more | ||||
| Anthology of Poetry | Whisky | more | ||||
| History of Mankind | Saxophone | more | ||||
| Bhagavad Gita by Christopher Isherwood | Writing materials | more | ||||
| Short Stories by W. Somerset Maugham | Radio receiver | more | ||||
| Blank paper and a typewriter | Knitting needles and wool | more | ||||
| Oxford Rhyming Dictionary | Wine | more | ||||
| Ends and Means by Aldous Huxley | Radio receiver | more | ||||
| Oxford English Dictionary | Bed | more | ||||
| Penguin Book of Quotations | Grapevines | more | ||||
| Do it yourself manual | Tape recorder | more | ||||
| Short Stories by P. G. Wodehouse | Golf clubs and balls | more | ||||
| Transcript of the Watergate hearings | Bernini columns from The Vatican | more | ||||
| Oxford Book of English Verse | Box of oddments from her dressing table | more | ||||
| English Dictionary | Tobacco seeds and a brewing vat | more | ||||
| How to be Your Own Best Friend by Mildred Newman | Soap | more | ||||
| Timetable of passing Steamers | Brandy | more | ||||
| Comb and manicure set | more | |||||
| Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians | German white wine | more | ||||
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| by William Wordsworth | Writing materials | more | ||||
| Bradshaw's railway timetable | Winemaking kit | more | ||||
| Anthology of World Poetry by Mark Van Doren | Oxford World Atlas and an Ordnance Survey map of the British Isles | more | ||||
| Anthology of Poetry | Madonna and Child by Jacob Epstein | more | ||||
| Collected works of Max Beerbohm | Painting materials | more | ||||
| Oxford English Dictionary | Gold bracelet called The Lion of Judah | more | ||||
| Collected works of Dylan Thomas | Cornet | more | ||||
| Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians | Radio-controlled aircraft | more | ||||
| Book on zoology | Piano | more | ||||
| Goethe's Faust | Score of Mozart's The Magic Flute | more |
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| Volume on chess championship play | Antique chess set | more | ||||
| by Edward Gibbon | Dom Pérignon Champagne | more | ||||
| Poetry by Roland Holst | Dutch Winter Landscape by Bruegel | more | ||||
| Burke's Landed Gentry | Bed | more | ||||
| Electric blanket | more | |||||
| by James Stephens | Typewriter and paper | more | ||||
| Radio receiver | more | |||||
| Bradshaw's railway timetable | Couch | more | ||||
| Tranquillizers | more | |||||
| by Thor Heyerdahl | Writing materials | more | ||||
| Funny way to be a Hero by John Fisher | Bowling machine and cricket balls | more | ||||
| Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome | Bed | more | ||||
| Ivory chess set | more | |||||
| War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll | Piano and wine | more | ||||
| Blank book | Wood-carving kit | more | ||||
| Anthology of poetry | Varieties of tea and a tea-making outfit | more | ||||
| Oxford English Dictionary | Havana cigars | more | ||||
| Novels by P. G. Wodehouse | Nougat | more | ||||
| Snoopy Dog by Charles M. Schulz | Bed | more | ||||
| Tape recorder | more | |||||
| Musical arrangements by Dave Brubeck | Piano | more | ||||
| Biography of Leonardo da Vinci | Silver singing bird box containing a miniature singing bird | more | ||||
| by Nancy Mitford | Triple-folding screen and personal photographs | more | ||||
| by Sheridan Le Fanu | Gin | more | ||||
| Guitar | more | |||||
| Collection of Welsh Poetry | Electronic pipe organ | more | ||||
| Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling | Cellini Salt Cellar | more | ||||
| Short stories by W. Somerset Maugham | Radio receiver | more | ||||
| Novels by Anthony Trollope | Colin Cowdrey's bowling machine | more | ||||
| by H. G. Wells | more | |||||
| Oxford Book of English Verse | Painting materials | more | ||||
| Kaleidoscope | more | |||||
| In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust | Sketching materials | more | ||||
| Plays and Prefaces by George Bernard Shaw | Cards | more | ||||
| by Charles Dickens | Binoculars | more | ||||
| Family photograph album | David Wynne's The Dancers | more | ||||
| Survival manual | Still | more | ||||
| Gin and vermouth | more | |||||
| Men and Animals in Italian | Piano | more | ||||
| Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees | Airmail edition of The Times | more | ||||
| Novels by P. G. Wodehouse | Tobacco plant | more | ||||
| Victoria R.I. by Elizabeth Longford | Group photograph of friends | more | ||||
| Oxford Book of English Verse | Writing materials | more | ||||
| Act One by Moss Hart | Mellotron | more | ||||
| Collected stories by Albert Camus | Drawing and writing materials | more | ||||
| Ma Cuisine by Auguste Escoffier | Piano | more | ||||
| Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen | Harmonica | more | ||||
| Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne | Inflatable woman | more | ||||
| Collected poems by Edward Thomas | Pair of shoes | more | ||||
| Debrett's | Radio receiver | more | ||||
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll | Portrait of her husband | more | ||||
| Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome | Binoculars | more |
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| Something to improve the taste of coconut milk | more | |||||
| by Winston Churchill | Radio receiver | more | ||||
| Bible in German | Wine | more | ||||
| In Search of the Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky | Radio receiver | more | ||||
| Novels by Anthony Trollope | Rolls-Royce | more | ||||
| by Thomas à Kempis | Golf clubs and balls | more | ||||
| Dictionary | more | |||||
| Survival manual | Beauty products | more | ||||
| Work on botany | Electric guitar | more | ||||
| by Anthony Powell | Notebooks and pens | more | ||||
| Artists' materials | more | |||||
| Pogo comic strips by Walt Kelly | Drum set | more | ||||
| by Axel Munthe | statue | more | ||||
| Crossword book | Oyster knife | more | ||||
| Palgrave's Golden Treasury | Champagne | more | ||||
| Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset | Four-poster bed | more | ||||
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| The Adventurers by Harold Robbins | Video & TV | more | ||||
| Pipes and tobacco | more | |||||
| Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne | Champagne | more | ||||
| Dummy piano keyboard | more | |||||
| Blank book | Mouth organ | more | ||||
| Collected Sermons by John Henry Newman | Emerald | more | ||||
| Rhyming Dictionary | Typewriter | more | ||||
| by Edward Gibbon | Microscope | more | ||||
| Architectural pens and paper | more | |||||
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| by Oscar Wilde | Painting by Van Hook | more | ||||
| Violin | more | |||||
| by Kenneth Grahame | Radio receiver | more | ||||
| Russian grammar | Writing materials | more | ||||
| Enid Bagnold's Autobiography | Tea | more | ||||
| by Charles Dickens | White Burgundy wine | more | ||||
| Book of Secrets by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh | Whisky | more | ||||
| Beyond the Black Stump by Nevil Shute | Rolls-Royce | more | ||||
| Palgrave's Golden Treasury | Wine | more | ||||
| Emma by Jane Austen | Bath salts | more | ||||
| Street Map of London | Bonsai tree | more | ||||
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll | Armchair | more | ||||
| Ontological argument from St Anselm to Contemporary Philosophers | Steam locomotive and railway | more | ||||
| Dictionary of Quotations | Piano | more | ||||
| by Edward Gibbon | Writing materials | more | ||||
| Manicure and pedicure set | more | |||||
| Wisden Cricketers' Almanack | Carpentry set | more | ||||
| Another World Than This by Vita Sackville-West | Four-poster bed | more | ||||
| Do it yourself manual | Seascape by J. M. W. Turner | more | ||||
| Papers, pencils, paints | more | |||||
| by Bertrand Russell | Oil painting | more | ||||
| Bow and arrows | more | |||||
| Pacific Cookbook by Victor Sperandeo | Perfume | more | ||||
| Roget's Thesaurus | Guitar | more |
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| Dictionary of Quotations | more | |||||
| Herrings in sour cream | more | |||||
| by John Galsworthy | Gardening kit | more | ||||
| From Here to Eternity by James Jones | Cards | more | ||||
| by Kenneth Grahame | Saxophone | more | ||||
| Champagne and dress | more | |||||
| Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri | Bicycle | more | ||||
| Cricket bag | more | |||||
| Sleeping bag and television that doesn't work | more | |||||
| by Bertrand Russell | Inflatable woman | more | ||||
| Dictionary of Quotations | Piano | more | ||||
| Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens | Summer Arangments by Nikolsky | more | ||||
| Anthology of English Poetry from 1400 | Champagne | more | ||||
| Dune by Frank Herbert | Ballet picture by Edgar Degas | more | ||||
| by Bertrand Russell | Piano | more | ||||
| Best of Hermann Bessmann | Michelangelo's David | more | ||||
| I Ching | Michelangelo's David | more | ||||
| by Edward Gibbon | Chinese temple at Virginia Water | more | ||||
| by Robert Erskine Childers | Charles I silver tankard | more | ||||
| Dictionary | Reading glass with light | more | ||||
| Wisden Cricketers' Almanack | Bed | more | ||||
| Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe | Writing materials | more | ||||
| by Gilbert White | Tape recorder | more | ||||
| Lyrical Dramas of August Strindberg | Puppet theatre | more | ||||
| Darkroom | more | |||||
| Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians | Champagne | more | ||||
| Diary of an Old Soul by George MacDonald | Flute | more | ||||
| Gardeners' Yearbook | Diary and pencil | more | ||||
| Typewriter and paper | more | |||||
| Film directory | Air conditioner | more | ||||
| Clavichord | more | |||||
| Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy | Champagne | more | ||||
| Poetry from around the world | Golden flute | more | ||||
| In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust | Lapsang souchong tea | more | ||||
| Candide by Voltaire | Manuscript paper and pens | more | ||||
| Form book | Havana cigars | more | ||||
| Photograph album | Grapevines | more | ||||
| English-Spanish Dictionary | Painting materials | more | ||||
| Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe by François-René de Chateaubriand | Champagne | more | ||||
| by J. L. Carr | Navel brush | more | ||||
| Anthology of Poetry | Flute | more | ||||
| by Mikhail Lermontov | Wine | more | ||||
| Bahá'í Revelation by Bahá'u'lláh | Calculator | more | ||||
| Malt whisky | more | |||||
| Magnifying glass | more | |||||
| Bevis: The Story of a Boy by Richard Jefferies | Writing materials | more | ||||
| Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri | Piano | more | ||||
| Compendium of world philosophy | Guitar | more | ||||
| Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas | Clavichord | more | ||||
| Oxford Book of English Verse | Armchair | more | ||||
| Telescope | more | |||||
| Survival manual | Champagne | more |
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| Complete book of world cookery | Bicycle | more | ||||
| Volume on tropical flora and fauna | Binoculars | more | ||||
| Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians | Telescope | more | ||||
| Waterbed | more | |||||
| Evening dress suit | more | |||||
| Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift | Family photo album | more | ||||
| Transcript of the Erhard Seminar Training Course by Werner Erhard | Pencils and paper | more | ||||
| War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Champagne | more | ||||
| by Henry Watson Fowler | Piano | more | ||||
| Volume on tropical flora and fauna | Orchid collection | more | ||||
| by J. R. R. Tolkien | Selected cases of French wine | more | ||||
| Roget's Thesaurus | Pencils and paper | more | ||||
| Around The Year With Emmet Fox by Emmet Fox | Scissors, needles and thread | more | ||||
| Large blank book with pencils | Ton of treasure dated about 1642 | more | ||||
| Boys' Own Annual of 1926 | Pianola and a supply of piano rolls | more | ||||
| Collected works by John Donne | Album of photographs of his wife | more | ||||
| by Kenneth Grahame | Pipe | more | ||||
| British Army survival manual | Bed | more | ||||
| Comprehensive book on birds | Binoculars | more | ||||
| Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood by Mary Strong | more | |||||
| Thick blank book and pen | Little marble Buddha | more | ||||
| Now We Are Six and When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne | Oils and a comb | more | ||||
| Emma by Jane Austen | Sketchbook, pencil, pen and ink | more | ||||
| Gone With The Wind (in Italian) by Margaret Mitchell | Painting materials | more | ||||
| Guinness World Records | Bath with warm water | more | ||||
| Stories by W. W. Jacobs | Armchair | more | ||||
| Exercise books and ballpoint pens | more | |||||
| Volume on physics | Fresh-water shower | more | ||||
| Light on Yoga by B. K. S. Iyengar | Oil painting equipment | more | ||||
| Palgrave's Golden Treasury | Solar-powered transistor radio | more | ||||
| Catch-22 by Joseph Heller | Electrical device to heat shaving foam | more | ||||
| Orphan Island by Rose Macaulay | more | |||||
| In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust | more | |||||
| Oxford English Dictionary | Wool and a crochet hook | more | ||||
| Collected poetry by W. H. Auden | Bed | more | ||||
| Whisky and ginger ale | more | |||||
| Giles Cartoons by Carl Giles | Royal Albert Hall Organ | more | ||||
| Collected poetry by Rudyard Kipling | Whisky still | more | ||||
| Anthology of English Verse | Golf clubs and balls | more | ||||
| by Pierre Louÿs | Manuscript paper and pens | more | ||||
| by Compton Mackenzie | Typewriter, spare ribbons and paper | more | ||||
| Study book of six languages | Effigy of Denis Healey and a supply of pins | more | ||||
| Guide to boat building | Bath with hot water, soap and towels | more | ||||
| Atlas of the stars | Poppy seeds | more | ||||
| In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust | Annunciation by Leonardo da Vinci | more | ||||
| Book on elementary calculus | Paper and pencils | more | ||||
| Blank paper and pencils | Bath with solar-heated water | more | ||||
| Book of Quotations by William Gurney Benham | Exercise books and ballpoint pens | more | ||||
| Letters of Giuseppe Verdi | Perfume | more | ||||
| Shorthand instruction book with paper and pens | Set of bird ringing tools, including rings | more | ||||
| Collected essays by William Hazlitt | more | |||||
| Oxford Book of English Verse | Leather wallet containing photos of family and dog | more | ||||
| Oxford Book of English Verse | Typewriter and paper | more |
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| War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Perfume | more | ||||
| The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Several card decks | more | ||||
| Oxford English Dictionary | Typewriter and paper | more | ||||
| Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson | Who's Who in the Theatre and Photo albums | Couch and coconut oil and an ultra-sensitive receiver to hear voices from the past | more | |||
| Future Shock by Alvin Toffler | Barclaycard | more | ||||
| Amadeus Quartet | In Search of Lost Time, Divine Comedy, War and Peace and an instrument-making book | Projector, viola, radio, paper and pencils | more | |||
| The Survival Handbook | Photo album of her children | more | ||||
| Correspondence of Voltaire | Dozen cases of Château Latour 1961 | more | ||||
| Collected poetry by Federico García Lorca | Painting of his family by Aurelio | more | ||||
| Music Criticisms 1888-89 by George Bernard Shaw | Trombone | more | ||||
| Oxford English Dictionary | Typewriter, spare ribbons and paper | more | ||||
| Book on Claude Monet | Carbonated-drink maker and supply of flavourings | more | ||||
| Plays and Prefaces by George Bernard Shaw | Perfume | more | ||||
| Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute | Piece of Georgian furniture | more | ||||
| Other Men's Flowers by Archibald Wavell | Paper and ballpoint pens | more | ||||
| French dictionary | Greek sculpture of a female head | more | ||||
| by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Violin, strings and case | more | ||||
| French dictionary | Tape recorder | more | ||||
| New Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1950 | Painting of a restaurant on the banks of the Marne | more | ||||
| Whisky | more | |||||
| Daughter of Earth by Agnes Smedley | Indian tea | more | ||||
| Poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke | Winged Victory of Samothrace | more | ||||
| Complete works of Lord Byron | Waterbed | more | ||||
| Middlemarch by George Eliot | Pill to put him to sleep forever | more | ||||
| Letters by Queen Victoria | On the Banks of the Marne by Camille Pissarro | more | ||||
| by Stendhal | more | |||||
| Notes from an Odd Country by Geoffrey Grigson | Typewriter and paper | more | ||||
| Painting materials | more | |||||
| Selection of herbs | more | |||||
| by Henry James | German white wine | more | ||||
| I Ching | German white wine | more | ||||
| Mink-lined hammock | more | |||||
| Harold Macmillan's memoirs | more | |||||
| Poetry by W. B. Yeats | Oil painting equipment | more | ||||
| Philosophy book by Immanuel Kant | Tarot cards | more | ||||
| Poetry by Hart Crane | Typewriter and paper | more | ||||
| Survival manual | Box of spices | more | ||||
| Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain | Piano with wife's picture | more | ||||
| Shell County Guides | Bed | more | ||||
| Rocking chair | more | |||||
| Roget's Thesaurus | Motorway service station | more | ||||
| Travels in Arabia Deserta by Charles Montagu Doughty | Beaujolais wine | more | ||||
| Black Beauty by Anna Sewell | Picture of family | more | ||||
| Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell | Canoe | more | ||||
| Self Sufficiency by John Seymour | Inflatable woman | more | ||||
| by J. R. R. Tolkien | Linen sheets | more | ||||
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| Collected works by Raymond Chandler | Tobacco plant | more | ||||
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| Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell | Painting of a little princess, by Diego Velázquez | more | ||||
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| Collected Short Stories by John Cheever | Sun tan lotion | more | ||||
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| War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Paper and pencils | more | ||||
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| Streets of Gold by Ed McBain | Whisky | more | ||||
| Flowers of the World by Leslie Greenwood | Gold bar | more | ||||
| Earthly Paradise by Colette | South American hammock | more | ||||
| by Edward Gibbon | Radio receiver | more | ||||
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| Utopia by Thomas More | Tapestry making kit | more | ||||
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| Chronology of the Modern World by Neville Williams | Canvases, brushes and paint | more | ||||
| Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy | Paper and pencils | more | ||||
| by Cyril Connolly | Writing paper and pencils | more | ||||
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| by Edward Gibbon | Acid drops | more | ||||
| Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure and The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy | more | |||||
| by Bertrand Russell | Painting equipment for oils and watercolours | more | ||||
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| Scouting for Boys by Robert Baden-Powell | more | |||||
| Glory Road by Robert A. Heinlein | Bath with solar-heated water and bubble bath | more | ||||
| Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray | Bed | more | ||||
| by Edward Gibbon | Dawn on the Seine by Claude Monet | more | ||||
| Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell | Piano | more | ||||
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| Norman Mailer | Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges | more | ||||
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| Italian Touring Atlas of the World | more | |||||
| War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | more | |||||
| Elizabethan lyrics from songbooks and dramatists | more | |||||
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| Odyssey by Homer | more | |||||
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| Les Thibault by Roger Martin du Gard | more | |||||
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| My Method of Singing by Enrico Caruso | more | |||||
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| Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg | more | |||||
| Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler | Grapevines | more | ||||
| Collected works by E. B. White | Piano | more | ||||
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| Oxford Book of English Verse | Sugared apricots | more | ||||
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