List of Desert Island Discs episodes (2001–2010)
Date Castaway Book Luxury More info
1 January 2006 Kelly Holmes A set of encyclopaedias A large supply of chocolate more
8 January 2006 Richard Griffiths Vanity Fair by William Thackeray Velázquez 's Las Meninas more
15 January 2006 Frankie Dettori The history of the Derby A lifetime 's supply of Pinot grigio more
22 January 2006 John Sutherland Vanity Fair by William Thackeray An iPod more
29 January 2006 Rt . Hon . Shirley Williams Collected works of W. H. Auden A personal computer linked to the Internet more
5 February 2006 Jeremy Irons The Ashley Book of Knots by Clifford Ashley Rizla liquorice papers more
12 February 2006 Karen Armstrong The complete works of Milton Continuous supply of very cold & dry white wine more
19 February 2006 Frederic Raphael The Oxford Latin Dictionary A Montblanc pen , nibs and spiral-bound squared notebooks more
26 February 2006 Rachel Whiteread A reference book on the natural history of the island Ink , pen , paper and correction fluid more
5 March 2006 Jack Higgins The complete works of Charles Dickens A mobile phone more
12 March 2006 Terence Stamp The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame One of his wheat-free loaves more
7 May 2006 Daniel Barenboim Ethics by Spinoza A piano with a mattress more
14 May 2006 Darcey Bussell A biography of Audrey Hepburn An eyelash curler more
21 May 2006 Digby Jones How Britain made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson A video or pictorial book of '100 examples of excellence ' more
28 May 2006 David Cameron The River Cottage Cookbook by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall A crate of Scotch whisky more
4 June 2006 Armando Iannucci The complete short stories of H. G. Wells A virtual sherry trifle more
11 June 2006 George Davies A book about learning to paint A Cannondale bike more
18 June 2006 Peter Mansfield Family photograph albums A helicopter more
2 July 2006 John Browne Other Men 's Flowers : An Anthology of Poetry by Lord Wavell A lifetime 's supply of 'great cigars ' more
9 July 2006 Monty Don Collected poems of Henry Vaughan Rembrandt 's Hendrickje Bathing more
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