Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
3 January 1999 | Dave Brubeck | The Spear in the Sand by Raoul C. Faure | Grand piano | more |
10 January 1999 | Clare Hollingworth | History of England by G. M. Trevelyan | Paper and pens (with thick nibs) | more |
17 January 1999 | David Shepherd | Collected works of Beatrix Potter | Wind-up video player | more |
24 January 1999 | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | A chaise longue by a window | more |
31 January 1999 | Bill Bryson | The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson | Basketball and hoop with a little hard standing | more |
7 February 1999 | Andras Schiff | The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri | Piano | more |
14 February 1999 | Nina Cassian | Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne | Cigarettes and whisky | more |
21 February 1999 | Maria Ewing | Collected Poems of John Donne | Piano | more |
28 February 1999 | Richard Curtis | Guinness Book of Pop | Pizza Express in Notting Hill | more |
7 March 1999 | Sir Charles Mackerras | Translation of Shakespeare in either German, Italian or Czech | If a hot island - a huge bottle of suntan lotion and if a cold island - a pillow | more |
14 March 1999 | Fay Maschler | Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons | Huge supply of ouzo | more |
21 March 1999 | Rt Hon Mo Mowlam MP | The collected works of Seamus Heaney | Globe | more |
28 March 1999 | Luise Rainer | The Proper Study of Mankind by Isaiah Berlin | To be missed by the people she loves | more |
4 April 1999 | Richard Dunwoody | The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien | Endless supply of ice-cream |
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11 April 1999 | Paco Peña | Anthology of poetry by Jose Bergua | Virtual reality module | more |
18 April 1999 | Ken Loach | Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics by Francis Palgrave | Radio (for football results) | more |
25 April 1999 | Stan Tracey | Crazy Like A Fox by S. J. Perelman | The film - Oh, Mr Porter! | more |
2 May 1999 | Helen Bamber | Poet For Poet by Richard McCain | Radio to listen to the World Service | more |
9 May 1999 | Richard Dreyfuss | A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens | Books delivered to the island on a regular basis | more |
16 May 1999 | Michael Green | The Complete Works of Sigmund Freud | Digital TV | more |
23 May 1999 | Christopher Bruce | Teach yourself French | Suncream | more |
30 May 1999 | Anthony Howard | Dictionary of National Biography | Magnifying glass | more |
6 June 1999 | Chris Bonington | History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Sir Winston Churchill | Power Book G3 (laptop computer) | more |
13 June 1999 | John Barry | Eternal Echoes by John O'Donohue | Grand piano | more |
20 June 1999 | James Dyson | Olive: The Life and Love of a Noble Fruit by Mort Rosenslum | Olive oil | more |
27 June 1999 | Rt Hon Ann Widdecombe MP | Collected Poems of Thomas Gray | Hot shower | more |
4 July 1999 | Igor Aleksander | Companions to the Mind by Richard Gregory | A virtual reality London Symphony Orchestra so he can conduct it | more |
11 July 1999 | Paddy Moloney | The Book of Lempster (old Irish textbook currently in The Hague) | Tin whistle | more |
18 July 1999 | Martin Pipe | Horse Management by R. S. Timmis | Winning post from Cheltenham race course | more |
25 July 1999 | Rod Steiger | Complete book of poetry by e e cummings | Self-contained external electric fan | more |
1 August 1999 | Rick Stein | Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy | Thai fish sauce | more |
8 August 1999 | Patricia Routledge | The collected works of John Donne | Tea service with tea | more |
15 August 1999 | Sir Roger Norrington | The Complete Works of Thomas Hardy | Chocolate | more |
22 August 1999 | Rita Dove | One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez | Ballroom and robotic dance instructor | more |
29 August 1999 | Rolf Harris | The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay | Chisel for sculpting | more |
31 October 1999 | Ralph Fiennes | A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust | Pen and limited supplies of ink and paper | more |
7 November 1999 | Willard White | The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale | Seeds | more |
19 November 1999 | William Gibson | The Complete Works of Jorge Luis Borges | Junk yard | more |
21 November 1999 | Clarissa Dickson Wright | The Complete Works of Saki | Wind-up radio | more |
28 November 1999 | Warren Mitchell | Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian | Organ (from the Royal Albert Hall) | more |
5 December 1999 | Sir Richard Sykes | Origin of Species by Charles Darwin | Telescope | more |
12 December 1999 | Oz Clarke | French Provincial Cookery by Elizabeth David | His memory | more |
19 December 1999 | Michael Nyman | Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne | Toilet | more |
24 December 1999 | Michael Crawford | The complete book of self-sufficiency by John Seymour | Pen and paper | more |
31 December 1999 | Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber | England's Thousand Best Churches by Simon Jenkins | Herb garden | more |