List of Desert Island Discs episodes (2001–2010)
Date Castaway Book Luxury More info
5 January 2003 George Foreman An anthology of poems including the poem Waiting by John Burroughs A pillow more
12 January 2003 Gillian Anderson The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle Recordings of her daughter and her love reading self-written stories and poetry more
19 January 2003 Professor Baruch Blumberg Ulysses by James Joyce A flat water kayak suitable for rough water more
26 January 2003 Sir Trevor Nunn The Complete Works of Charles Dickens A photo of his wife and all of his children more
2 February 2003 Paul Whitehouse A chord book full of songs and arias A piano more
9 February 2003 Sir Ian McKellen A dictionary of flora and fauna A grand piano more
16 February 2003 Cornelia Parker World of Wonder : 10,000 things every child should know A solar powered vibrator more
23 February 2003 George Clooney War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy An anchored yacht more
2 March 2003 Gene Pitney The Giant Book of Mensa Puzzles by Robert Allen A case of Opus One wine more
9 March 2003 Vic Reeves Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome Potato seeds more
16 March 2003 Nick Danziger One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Pencils , paper and watercolours more
23 March 2003 Claude-Michel Schönberg All the Little Live things by Wallace Earle Stegner A grand piano more
30 March 2003 Kristin Scott Thomas Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen A pair of mules by Christian Louboutin more
6 April 2003 David Gilmour The Qur'an Acoustic guitar more
13 April 2003 Margaret Atwood The Arabian Nights : Tales from a Thousand and One Nights A big huge vat of Culpepers Rose Geranium bath salts more
20 April 2003 Rory Bremner The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon A radio more
4 May 2003 Professor A. H. Halsey Utopia by Thomas More A solar powered radio more
11 May 2003 George Fenton Short stories by Chekhov A piano or failing that for comfort a tin of condensed milk and an opener more
18 May 2003 Franco Zeffirelli Dante 's Inferno A hammock from Hermès more
25 May 2003 Derek Brown The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens A steamer chair more
2003
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