List of Desert Island Discs episodes (2001–10)
2005

List of Desert Island Discs episodes (2001–10)

Section Title: 2005
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Date	Castaway	Book	Luxury	More info

2 January 2005	Carlos Acosta	Dirty Havana Trilogy by Pedro Juan Gutierrez	A case of Havana rum	more

9 January 2005	Andy McNab	Any Dickens book	A gollock	more

16 January 2005	Sam Taylor-Wood	Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes	A karaoke machine	more

23 January 2005	Dr Jonathan Miller	The Invertebrates by Libbie Henrietta Hyman	A canvas roll containing a castaway's dissecting set	more

30 January 2005	Peter Maxwell Davies	A Sanskrit dictionary	Copper plate engravings of Dürer's Passion	more

6 February 2005	David Starkey	Microcosmographia Academica by Francis M. Cornford	Hot and cold running water, a bath tub and bath oil	more

27 February 2005	Geoffrey Palmer	The Oxford Book of English Verse by Arthur Quiller-Couch and The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse by Philip Larkin	A fly fishing rod	more

6 March 2005	Alison Richard	The Journals of Captain Cook	A solar powered shower	more

13 March 2005	Stephen Poliakoff	My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell	A box of plastic straws to fiddle with	more

20 March 2005	Raymond Briggs	The complete works of Beachcomber	A full size billiard table with Radio 4 built into each leg	more

27 March 2005	Yvonne Brewster	A primer to learn Italian with a tape	Olive oil	more

3 April 2005	Lorin Maazel	Pensées by Blaise Pascal	Vermeer painting: The Piano Lesson	more

10 April 2005	Philippe Petit	The Ashley Book of Knots by Clifford Ashley	His mysterious object (an object found by his father that as yet no one can identify)	more

17 April 2005	Patrick Stewart	A compendium of the world's best science fiction so he can become an expert	His beloved billiard table and a shed to keep it in	more

24 April 2005	Jarvis Cocker	Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan	A bed with a mosquito net	more

1 May 2005	Katharine Whitehorn	A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson	A machine to distill whatever is there	more

8 May 2005	Josephine Cox	"A book which is in my head about my brother"	A photo album of her family	more

15 May 2005	Imelda Staunton	A book on astronomy	Modelling clay and tools	more

22 May 2005	David King	Wild Reckoning: An Anthology Provoked by Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" edited by John Burnside and Maurice Riordan	A bunch of canvases with oils and brushes	more

29 May 2005	Satish Kumar	The collected writings of Mahatma Gandhi	A spade	more

5 June 2005	Nigel Slater	Derek Jarman's Garden by Derek Jarman	Howard Hodgkin's painting: Learning About Russian Music	more

12 June 2005	Betsy Blair	Reading Lyrics: More Than 1,000 of the Century's Finest Lyrics by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball	An ice cream maker	more

19 June 2005	Alexander McCall Smith	A collection of W. H. Auden's works	A handmade pair of shoes	more

26 June 2005	Ruby Wax	The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann	A huge bed	more

3 July 2005	Paulo Coelho	The complete works of Oscar Wilde	A trip around his island on Concorde	more

10 July 2005	Ronald Searle	The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography	The best Champagne possible	more

18 September 2005	Brenda Blethyn	A dictionary	A karaoke machine	more

25 September 2005	Julian Clary	Stop Thinking, Start Living by Richard Carlson	An all-purpose prosthetic arm	more

2 October 2005	Frank Gardner	A Passage to India by E. M. Forster	A solar powered buggy	more

9 October 2005	Michael Winner	The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger	A big supply of caviar	more

16 October 2005	Jacqueline Wilson	The collected stories of Katherine Mansfield	A fairground carousel	more

23 October 2005	Mario Testino	Demian by Hermann Hesse	His own pillow	more

30 October 2005	Boris Johnson MP	An Indian paper edition of Homer	A large pot of French mustard	more

6 November 2005	Chris Evans	A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens	A pair of swimming goggles with prescription lenses	more

18 November 2005	Renée Fleming	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis	Coffee	more

20 November 2005	Mary Midgley	The Variety of Religious Experiences by William James	A solar hot water system	more

27 November 2005	Sir David Frost	The London A-Z	Sunday newspapers	more

4 December 2005	Colin Firth	Stories of Woody Allen	His guitar	more

11 December 2005	David Hope	The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens	A case of selected malt whiskies	more

18 December 2005	Maggi Hambling	The Complete works of Just William by Richmal Crompton	The wine cellar from All Souls College, Oxford	more

25 December 2005	John Rutter	Teach yourself mathematics illustrated by voluptuous women	A viola	more

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