List of Desert Island Discs episodes (2001–10)
2010
Instead of the Bible: The Bhagavad Gita Instead of the Bible: The Gathas of Zarathustra Instead of the Bible: The Mahābhārata Instead of the Bible: The Qur'an Instead of the Complete Works of Shakespeare: The Complete Works of Goethe No bible Instead of the Bible: The Torah

List of Desert Island Discs episodes (2001–10)

Section Title: 2010
Table Section Text: Instead of the Bible: The Bhagavad Gita Instead of the Bible: The Gathas of Zarathustra Instead of the Bible: The Mahābhārata Instead of the Bible: The Qur'an Instead of the Complete Works of Shakespeare: The Complete Works of Goethe No bible Instead of the Bible: The Torah

Date	Castaway	Book	Luxury	More info

3 January 2010	John Copley	Grove's Operatic Dictionary of Music	His 49-year-old double bed	more

10 January 2010	Mary Portas	The works of Rumi, Persian poet and philosopher	A set of different fragrances from the people she loves	more

17 January 2010	James Ellroy	Libra by Don DeLillo	Sunblock	more

24 January 2010	Frank Warren	Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson	Merlot grapevine	more

31 January 2010	Mary Beard	Treasures of the British Museum by Marjorie Caygill	The Elgin Marbles	more

7 February 2010	Gok Wan	Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey	Lip balm	more

14 February 2010	Jim Al-Khalili	The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose	His acoustic guitar	more

21 February 2010	Clive Woodward	Short Game of Golf by Dave Pelz	A sand wedge and golf ball	more

28 February 2010	June Spencer	Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome	A Scrabble board	more

7 March 2010	Maggie Aderin-Pocock	Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon	A telescope	more

14 March 2010	Duncan Bannatyne	The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett	A pillow	more

21 March 2010	Frank Cottrell Boyce	The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin	A ferris wheel	more

28 March 2010	Emma Thompson	Homer's Odyssey	A saucepan - heavy bottomed with a removable handle	more

9 May 2010	Fay Weldon	Kennedy's Latin Primer	A shotgun	more

16 May 2010	Rob Brydon	The collected works of Dylan Thomas	A guitar	more

23 May 2010	Dame Stephanie Shirley	Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne	Madonna and Child by Henry Moore	more

30 May 2010	György Pauk	How to be an Alien by George Mikes	An espresso machine	more

13 June 2010	Frank Skinner	Teach yourself French	A ukulele	more

20 June 2010	Lewis Gilbert	A book of poems	A football	more

27 June 2010	Tony Adams	The book of Alcoholics Anonymous	A football	more

4 July 2010	Dame Fanny Waterman	The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith	A grand piano and a stool	more

11 July 2010	Dr Gwen Adshead	Biggest book of poetry available	Pen and paper	more

18 July 2010	Tim Robbins	A matchbook	A surfboard	more

25 July 2010	Lynn Barber	The Complete F. Scott Fitzgerald	A cyanide pill	more

1 August 2010	Jimmy Mulville	The Complete Works of P. G. Wodehouse	A solar powered espresso machine	more

8 August 2010	Lord Cobbold	Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton	A fishing rod	more

15 August 2010	Kathy Burke	The Complete Works of Graham Linehan	A life size laminated photo of James Caan from Dragon's Den	more

26 September 2010	Sir Tom Jones	The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James	A bucket and spade	more

3 October 2010	Johnny Vegas	The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell	A kiln	more

10 October 2010	Sarah Doukas	The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin	A photo album of all her family	more

17 October 2010	Michael Mansfield	The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine as his Bible and The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz	A drum kit	more

24 October 2010	Nick Clegg	The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa	A stash of cigarettes	more

31 October 2010	Lang Lang	The Analects of Confucius	Two feathered pillows	more

7 November 2010	Ian McMillan	The Long and The Short of It: Poems 1955–2005 by Roy Fisher	A tandem bike with wooden models of his family on the front	more

19 November 2010	Anna Del Conte	The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa	Extra virgin olive oil	more

21 November 2010	Alice Cooper	Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut	An indoor golf driving range	more

28 November 2010	Robert Harris	Scoop by Evelyn Waugh	A nightly fragrant bath	more

5 December 2010	Frances Wood	A copy of Chinese dictionary Cihai, which means Sea of Words	The war memorial outside Euston Station	more

12 December 2010	Sir Torquil Norman	A book of his father's poems and verses	A small still with an ice maker attached to it	more

19 December 2010	Nick Park	A Collins bird book	His own "amazing pair of binoculars"	more

26 December 2010	Sandie Shaw	Lecture on The Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life by Daisaku Ikeda	Omamori Gohonzon	more

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Copley was cast on Desert Island Discs on 3 January 2010.
Copley was the Castaway on the Desert Island Discs programme on January 3, 2010.

final_sentence: Copley was cast on Desert Island Discs on 3 January 2010.
final_sentence: Copley was the Castaway on the Desert Island Discs programme on January 3, 2010.