List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1961–1970)
# List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1961–1970)

The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites castaways to choose eight pieces of music, a book (in addition to the Bible – or a religious text appropriate to that person's beliefs - and the Complete Works of Shakespeare) and a luxury item that they would take to an imaginary desert island, where they will be marooned indefinitely. The rules state that the chosen luxury item must not be anything animate, nor anything that enables the castaway to escape from the island, for instance a radio set, sailing yacht or aeroplane. The choices of book and luxury can sometimes give insight into the guest's life, and the choices of guests between 1961 and 1970 are listed here.

## 1961

| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 2 January 1961 | Victor Gollancz | The Year of Grace by Victor Gollancz | Meerschaum pipe | more |
| 9 January 1961 | Kenneth Horne | Anthology of English verse | Piece of crystal | more |
| 16 January 1961 | Beverley Sisters | Book of Soccer by Billy Wright, The Story of Mankind by Hendrik van Loon and The Science of Life by H G Wells | Rolls-Royce, water skis and piano | more |
| 23 January 1961 | Ted Williams | Horse and Hound | Cigarettes | more |
| 30 January 1961 | Cyril Mills | Les Miserables by Victor Hugo | Bed | more |
| 6 February 1961 | Mary Ure | The collected plays of John Osborne | Painting by Rembrandt in the National Gallery | more |
| 13 February 1961 | Antonio | Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes | Crucifix and family photo album | more |
| 20 February 1961 | Jimmy Edwards | Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence | Euphonium | more |
| 27 February 1961 | June Bronhill | The poems of Ogden Nash | Suntan oil | more |
| 6 March 1961 | James Mason | Finnegans Wake by James Joyce | Bagpipes | more |
| 13 March 1961 | Carmen Dragon | Book on astronomy | Telescope | more |
| 20 March 1961 | Michael Wilding | Encyclopædia Britannica | Golf clubs and balls | more |
| 27 March 1961 | Kenneth McKellar | Encyclopædia Britannica | Tuning fork | more |
| 3 April 1961 | Peter Scott | The drawings of Leonardo da Vinci | Underwater mask | more |
| 10 April 1961 | Barbara Jefford | History of the English Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill | Piano | more |
| 17 April 1961 | Brian Reece | Navigational manual | Still | more |
| 24 April 1961 | Adam Faith | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley | Cold cure, pack of cards and writing materials | more |
| 1 May 1961 | Finlay Currie | The Dictionary of National Biography | 17th-century miniature by Peter Oliver | more |
| 8 May 1961 | Ralph Reader | Goodbye Mr Chips by James Hilton | Typewriter and paper | more |
| 15 May 1961 | Pietro Annigoni | International timetable of ships and trains | Drawing materials and pillow | more |
| 22 May 1961 | Kenneth Williams | The collected works of George Bernard Shaw | Michelangelo's Apollo | more |
| 29 May 1961 | Kingsley Amis | The collected poetry of Robert Graves | American whiskey | more |
| 5 June 1961 | Julian Bream | Collection of 16th and 17th-century English poetry | Guitar, manuscript paper and pens | more |
| 12 June 1961 | Richard Murdoch | History of the world | Golf clubs and balls | more |
| 19 June 1961 | Dr W Grey Walter | Everybody's handbook for survival on a desert island | Computer | more |
| 26 June 1961 | Ann Haydon | The plays of Johann Wolfgang Goethe | Insect repellent | more |
| 3 July 1961 | Roy Hay | Candide by Voltaire | Asparagus seed | more |
| 10 July 1961 | Anna Massey | Book on mathematics | Family photographs and tape recorder | more |
| 17 July 1961 | Joe Davis | Whitaker's Almanack | Golf clubs and balls | more |
| 24 July 1961 | Nelson Riddle | The collected poetry of Robert Frost | Piano | more |
| 31 July 1961 | Yvonne Mitchell | Compilation of works of philosophy | Writing materials | more |
| 7 August 1961 | Gerald Durrell | Encyclopædia Britannica | Writing materials | more |
| 14 August 1961 | Jack Fingleton | The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis | Golf clubs and balls | more |
| 21 August 1961 | Diana Dors | Anthology of poetry | Writing materials | more |
| 28 August 1961 | Edward Ward | Encyclopædia Britannica | Carving tools | more |
| 4 September 1961 | John Slater | Plays and Prefaces by George Bernard Shaw | Still | more |
| 11 September 1961 | Coral Browne | The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde | Sable coat | more |
| 18 September 1961 | Commander Sir Stephen King-Hall | Parliamentary Practice by Erskine May | Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington | more |
| 2 October 1961 | Tommy Reilly | Picture of the English countryside | Harmonica | more |
| 9 October 1961 | Canon Noel Duckworth | The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis | Radio receiver | more |
| 16 October 1961 | Hattie Jacques | Oxford Dictionary of Quotations | Photograph and recording of her family | more |
| 30 October 1961 | Sir Gerald Beadle | Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell | Claret | more |
| 6 November 1961 | Wee Georgie Wood | Memoirs of a Midget by Walter de la Mare | Writing materials | more |
| 13 November 1961 | Rupert Davies | Candide by Voltaire | Lump of jade | more |
| 20 November 1961 | Virgil Thomson | Encyclopædia Britannica | Music manuscript paper, pencils and rubber | more |
| 27 November 1961 | Joan Collins | Teach yourself manual of the principal foreign languages | Television set | more |
| 4 December 1961 | Paul Gallico | Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll | Writing materials | more |
| 11 December 1961 | Sir Michael Balcon | Oxford English Dictionary | Wine | more |
| 18 December 1961 | Bob Hope | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell | A little money | more |
| 25 December 1961 | Gracie Fields | The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy | Reproduction of Renoir's The Picnic | more |

## 1962

| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 January 1962 | James Gunn RA | Large anthology of poetry | Painting materials | more |
| 8 January 1962 | Hughie Green | An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser | Looking glass | more |
| 15 January 1962 | Stuart Hibberd | Another World Than This by Vita Sackville-West | Recorder | more |
| 22 January 1962 | Ken Sykora | Science for the Citizen | Guitar | more |
| 29 January 1962 | Sir John Gielgud | Oxford Dictionary of Quotations | Watercolour of Versailles by Raoul Dufy | more |
| 5 February 1962 | Kay Cavendish | Encyclopædia Britannica | Flower seeds and armchair | more |
| 12 February 1962 | Stanley Holloway | Mrs Beeton's Household Management | Parking meter and plenty of change | more |
| 19 February 1962 | Frank Chacksfield | The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens | Cine camera | more |
| 26 February 1962 | H E Bates | English lyrics | Banjo | more |
| 5 March 1962 | Irene Handl | Reproductions of her favourite pictures | Pencils and paper | more |
| 12 March 1962 | Colonel A D Wintle | Large blank book | Dog whip | more |
| 19 March 1962 | Louis Kentner | Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov | Pencils and paper | more |
| 26 March 1962 | Raymond Glendenning | Pears Cyclopaedia | Watercolour paints | more |
| 2 April 1962 | Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat | A child's guide to boatbuilding and Short Stories by O Henry | Writing materials and reclining chair | more |
| 9 April 1962 | Leslie Phillips | The rudiments of several useful languages | Chess board with jade pieces | more |
| 16 April 1962 | Billy Butlin | Short Stories by O Henry | Drawing board, paper and pencils | more |
| 23 April 1962 | Robert Morley | The rules of patience | Two packs of cards with photographs of his family on the backs | more |
| 30 April 1962 | Christina Foyle | The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith | Her commonplace book | more |
| 7 May 1962 | Leslie Crowther | The Second World War by Sir Winston Churchill | Sport suit | more |
| 14 May 1962 | Sir Fitzroy Maclean | As many works as possible by Robert Louis Stevenson | Still | more |
| 21 May 1962 | Sidney Nolan | Chinese language course | Snorkel mask | more |
| 28 May 1962 | Sir Alan Cobham | History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Sir Winston Churchill | Jamaicancigars | more |
| 4 June 1962 | Eric Hosking | Field guide to the island's birds | Camera and film | more |
| 11 June 1962 | Alistair Cooke | Chrestomathy by H L Mencken | Tape recorder | more |
| 18 June 1962 | Giovanni Martinelli | Inferno by Dante Alighieri | Bronze statuette of David by Verrocchio | more |
| 25 June 1962 | John Allegro | Some novels by P G Wodehouse | Rolls-Royce engine | more |
| 2 July 1962 | Franklin Engelmann | English dictionary | Painting materials | more |
| 9 July 1962 | Stephen Spender | History of the Renaissance by Jacob Burckhardt | Painting materials | more |
| 16 July 1962 | Bruce Forsyth | The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam | Golf clubs and balls | more |
| 23 July 1962 | Paul Rogers | Chambers' Encyclopaedia | Penny whistle | more |
| 30 July 1962 | Merfyn Turner | A history of Wales | Picasso's The Child and the Dove | more |
| 6 August 1962 | Charlie Chester | The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy | Typewriter and paper | more |
| 13 August 1962 | Lionel Tertis | Books by H Rider Haggard, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jules Verne | Portrait of his wife | more |
| 20 August 1962 | Edith Day | Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson | Radio receiver | more |
| 27 August 1962 | Mario del Monaco | English grammar | Raphael's The Marriage of Maria | more |
| 3 September 1962 | R F Delderfield | The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle | Typewriter and paper | more |
| 10 September 1962 | Stanley Unwin | Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians | Painting materials | more |
| 17 September 1962 | L. Hugh Newman | Plays and Prefaces by George Bernard Shaw | Bed | more |
| 24 September 1962 | Peter Jones | Book on astronomy | Telescope | more |
| 1 October 1962 | Antony Hopkins | Piano sonatas by Beethoven | Piano | more |
| 8 October 1962 | Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies | The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss | Skin food | more |
| 15 October 1962 | Fanny and Johnnie Cradock | Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology and History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Sir Winston Churchill | Typewriter and paper and golf clubs and balls | more |
| 29 October 1962 | Pamela Hansford-Johnson | A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust | Van Eyck's Adoration of the Immaculate Lamb | more |
| 5 November 1962 | George Shearing | Masterman Ready by Frederick Marryat | Metal construction set | more |
| 12 November 1962 | Dr Robert Stopford | Oxford Book of English Verse | Painting materials | more |
| 19 November 1962 | Jack Warner | A Tale of Two Cities (in English and French) by Charles Dickens | Soap | more |
| 26 November 1962 | Peter Saunders | Who's Who in the Theatre | Electric blanket | more |
| 3 December 1962 | Anna Russell | Encyclopædia Britannica | Mobile from the Museum of Modern Art | more |
| 10 December 1962 | Acker Bilk | The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame | Apple seeds | more |
| 17 December 1962 | A G Street | Ladies Whose Bright Eyes by Ford Madox Ford | Painting of the south Wiltshire countryside | more |
| 22 December 1962 | Lord George Sanger | Seventy Years a Showman (autobiography of his great-great-grandfather) | Tea | more |
| 24 December 1962 | Clarkson Rose | History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Sir Winston Churchill | Writing materials | more |
| 31 December 1962 | George Mitchell | The Ring Cycle (The Score) by Richard Wagner | Music manuscript paper and pencils | more |

## 1963

| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 7 January 1963 | Dorothy Squires | Vaughan Haddock's Book of Modern Verse | Piano | more |
| 14 January 1963 | Basil Boothroyd | Oxford Dictionary of Quotations | Current popular newspaper | more |
| 21 January 1963 | Richard Lewis | History of Art by H W Janson | Film projector | more |
| 28 January 1963 | Noël Coward | The Human Situation by MacNeill Dixon | Painting materials | more |
| 4 February 1963 | Sir Learie Constantine | The Old Curiosity Shop and David Copperfield by Charles Dickens | Cricket bat | more |
| 11 February 1963 | Michael Bentine | Encyclopædia Britannica | Painting materials | more |
| 18 February 1963 | Quentin Reynolds | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon | Typewriter and paper | more |
| 25 February 1963 | Cyril Ornadel | The Talmud | Piano | more |
| 4 March 1963 | Percy Thrower | Gardening encyclopaedia | Flower seeds | more |
| 11 March 1963 | Arthur Haynes | French language course | Ukulele | more |
| 18 March 1963 | Dudley Perkins | The Complete Works of John Milton | Piano | more |
| 25 March 1963 | Leslie Gilbert Illingworth | Instructions for making a still | Painting materials | more |
| 1 April 1963 | Sir Harry Whitlohn (fictional; April Fool's Day prank) | Telephone directory | Mountain | more |
| 8 April 1963 | Ted Willis | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Concertina | more |
| 15 April 1963 | David Frost | The collected works of Geoffrey Chaucer | Potato crisps | more |
| 22 April 1963 | Marjorie Proops | Larousse Gastronomique | Looking glass | more |
| 29 April 1963 | George Chisholm | Anthology of humour | Trombone and hair restorer | more |
| 6 May 1963 | Professor L Dudley Stamp | Everyman's Encyclopaedia | Wine | more |
| 13 May 1963 | Frank Worrell | Work on anthropology by Max Gluckman | Film projector and cricket films | more |
| 20 May 1963 | Rowland Emmett | The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton | His daughter's teddy bear | more |
| 27 May 1963 | Birgit Nilsson | The Second World War by Sir Winston Churchill | Swedish crossword puzzles | more |
| 3 June 1963 | Barry Bucknell | Anthology of world poetry | Toilet set | more |
| 10 June 1963 | Eva Bartok | The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery | Painting materials | more |
| 17 June 1963 | Joe Loss | Selection of personal letters | Radio receiver | more |
| 24 June 1963 | Beryl Reid | The World Encyclopaedia of Cookery | Lipsticks | more |
| 1 July 1963 | Boyd Neel | Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll | Whisky | more |
| 8 July 1963 | Juliette Gréco | Atlas | Writing materials | more |
| 15 July 1963 | Geraint Evans | Anthology of 20th century verse | Mouth organ | more |
| 22 July 1963 | Vivienne | Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll | Painting materials | more |
| 29 July 1963 | Carleton Hobbs | The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy | Radio receiver | more |
| 5 August 1963 | Ian Fleming | War and Peace (in German) by Leo Tolstoy | Typewriter and paper | more |
| 12 August 1963 | Sir Charles Maclean | Volumes of the Illustrated London News | Piano | more |
| 19 August 1963 | Graham Hill | Volumes of short stories by Ernest Hemingway | Armchair | more |
| 26 August 1963 | Dr Reginald Jacques | The Nine Tailors and Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L Sayers | Music manuscript paper and pencils | more |
| 2 September 1963 | Sophie Tucker | The Conversion of Charlie Cohen by Herbert Tarr | Make-up | more |
| 9 September 1963 | Raymond Baxter | Encyclopædia Britannica | Rodin's Danae | more |
| 16 September 1963 | Norman Del Mar | Le Petit Larousse Illustre | Piano | more |
| 23 September 1963 | Group Captain Leonard Cheshire | Breviary | Photograph of the face on the Holy Shroud at Turin | more |
| 7 October 1963 | Bernard Cribbins | Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson | Michelangelo's Pieta | more |
| 14 October 1963 | Pat Moss | James Bond novels by Ian Fleming | Bed | more |
| 21 October 1963 | Admiral Sir Michael Maynard Denny | The Ship by Limberg | Binoculars | more |
| 28 October 1963 | Patrick Moore | The Norton Star Atlas | Telescope | more |
| 4 November 1963 | Joan Bennett | My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell | Suntan lotion | more |
| 11 November 1963 | Stephen Potter | Book about sea birds and waders | Field glasses | more |
| 18 November 1963 | Gordon Pirie | Gray's Anatomy | Motor car | more |
| 25 November 1963 | Ron Grainer | Techniques and Civilization by Louis Mumford | Flame opal | more |
| 2 December 1963 | T R Robinson | Volume of illustrations of the English countryside | Marine chronometer | more |
| 9 December 1963 | Millicent Martin | The Way of Life by Laozi | Four poster bed | more |
| 16 December 1963 | Harford Montgomery Hyde | Life of Johnson by James Boswell | Brandy | more |
| 23 December 1963 | Coco the Clown | Dictionary | Writing materials | more |
| 30 December 1963 | Cyril Smith and Phyllis Sellick | Oxford Book of English Verse and Encyclopædia Britannica | Picture of their children and microphone and amplifier | more |

## 1964

| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 6 January 1964 | Ethel Revnell | Biography of Bette Davis | Writing materials | more |
| 13 January 1964 | Leslie Baily | Anthology of poetry by Walter de la Mare | Woodworker tools | more |
| 20 January 1964 | Richard Attenborough | Biography of Mahatma Gandhi | Piano and conductor's baton | more |
| 27 January 1964 | Regina Resnik | Book with blank pages and pen | Toothbrush | more |
| 3 February 1964 | Julie Andrews | The Once and Future King by T H White | Piano | more |
| 30 March 1964 | Wilfrid Brambell | English dictionary | Scotch whisky and lager | more |
| 6 April 1964 | Sir Miles Thomas | The Second World War by Sir Winston Churchill | Toothpaste | more |
| 13 April 1964 | Stan Barstow | The Modern Short Story by H E Bates | Writing materials | more |
| 20 April 1964 | Ian Wallace | Short stories by Somerset Maugham | Guitar | more |
| 27 April 1964 | Rex Alston | Set of Wisden | Bed | more |
| 4 May 1964 | Jim Clark | At the Wheel by Jim Clark | Radio receiver | more |
| 11 May 1964 | David Kossoff | Story of the Marx Brothers | Michelangelo's David | more |
| 18 May 1964 | Dame Edith Evans | Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy | Photographs | more |
| 25 May 1964 | David Jacobs | A Hundred-and-One Things a Girl Can Do | Piano and family photographs | more |
| 1 June 1964 | Richard Wattis | The Life of Disraeli by André Maurois | Bed | more |
| 8 June 1964 | Harry Wheatcroft | Lives by Plutarch | Rose trees | more |
| 15 June 1964 | Paul Tortelier | La Petite chronique d'Anna Magdalena Bach by Esther Meynell | Bicycle and cider | more |
| 22 June 1964 | Kenneth Connor | Margin Released by J B Priestley | Guitar | more |
| 29 June 1964 | Glen Byam Shaw | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | First aid kit | more |
| 6 July 1964 | Dorian Williams | Omnibus edition of Surtees | Writing materials | more |
| 13 July 1964 | Vanessa Redgrave | Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy | Coffee and condensed milk | more |
| 20 July 1964 | David Wynne | English translations and original Italian works by Dante Alighieri | Cocoa | more |
| 27 July 1964 | Roy MacGregor-Hastie | The Day of the Lion by Roy MacGregor-Hastie | Cigarettes | more |
| 3 August 1964 | Dick Chipperfield | Black's Veterinary Dictionary by E Boden | Cine projector and circus films | more |
| 10 August 1964 | Stephen Grenfell | The Golden Treasury by Francis Palgrave | Writing materials | more |
| 17 August 1964 | Percy Merriman | The Dictionary of National Biography | Field glasses | more |
| 24 August 1964 | Cilla Black | Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll | The Mona Lisa | more |
| 31 August 1964 | Lord Thomson of Fleet | Encyclopædia Britannica | Radio receiver | more |
| 7 September 1964 | Stratford Johns | Encyclopædia Britannica | Painting by Goya | more |
| 14 September 1964 | Russell Brockbank | Navigational manual | Drawing materials | more |
| 21 September 1964 | Robbie Brightwell | The Human Situation by MacNeill Dixon | Safety razor | more |
| 28 September 1964 | Dirk Bogarde | The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss | Conversation Piece by John Singer Sargent - a painting of the Sitwells | more |
| 5 October 1964 | John Bratby | Breakdown by John Bratby | Typewriter and paper | more |
| 12 October 1964 | Jon Pertwee | The Culture of the Abdomen: A Cure of Obesity and Constipation by F A Hornibrook | Guitar | more |
| 19 October 1964 | Reverend W Awdry | Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe | Writing materials | more |
| 26 October 1964 | William Douglas-Home | The collected works of William Douglas-Home | His daughter's two teddy bears | more |
| 2 November 1964 | Harry Brittain | The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White | Wine | more |
| 9 November 1964 | Hardie Ratcliffe | Russian grammar | Guitar | more |
| 16 November 1964 | Honor Blackman | Personal anthology of poetry | Michelangelo's David | more |
| 23 November 1964 | Frank Phillips | A Dictionary of Origins by Eric Partridge | Armchair | more |
| 30 November 1964 | Brian Epstein | Elected Origins by Thomas Merton | Painting materials | more |
| 7 December 1964 | George Malcolm | Omnibus by Evelyn Waugh | Clavichord | more |
| 14 December 1964 | Tallulah Bankhead | The Human Situation by MacNeill Dixon | Her portrait by Augustus John | more |
| 21 December 1964 | Lavinia Young | Manual of astronomy plus a bookmark with a photograph of Michelangelo's Pieta | Telescope | more |
| 28 December 1964 | John Clements | The collected works of George Bernard Shaw | Champagne | more |

## 1965

| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 4 January 1965 | Marlene Dietrich | The Telegram and A Story of Life by Konstantin Paustovsky | Mementoes box | more |
| 11 January 1965 | Dawn Addams | Anthology of world poetry | Writing materials | more |
| 18 January 1965 | Frank Ifield | Blank book | Family photo album | more |
| 1 February 1965 | Sir Basil Spence | History of Architecture on the Comparative Method by Sir Banister Fletcher | Spaghetti | more |
| 8 February 1965 | Owen Brannigan | The collected works of G.K. Chesterton | Trombone | more |
| 15 February 1965 | Gale Pedrick | Who's Who | Writing materials | more |
| 15 February 1965 | Sir Paul Dukes | The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam | Soap | more |
| 1 March 1965 | Arthur Fiedler | Encyclopædia Britannica | Binoculars | more |
| 8 March 1965 | Dick Richards | Encyclopaedia | Travel itinerary | more |
| 15 March 1965 | Sir Richard Woolley | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon | Soap | more |
| 22 March 1965 | Bert Weedon | Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore | Guitar | more |
| 29 March 1965 | Anatole de Grunwald | Golfing stories by P G Wodehouse | Caviar | more |
| 5 April 1965 | George Baker | His favourite works by Charles Dickens | Writing materials | more |
| 10 April 1965 | Dr W. E. Shewell-Cooper | Bible commentary by Matthew Henry | Seeds | more |
| 12 April 1965 | Dame Margot Fonteyn | Hadrian's Memoirs by Marguerite Yourcenar | Skin diver's mask | more |
| 19 April 1965 | Al Read | Think and Grow Rich and I'll Teach You Personality | Family photo album | more |
| 26 April 1965 | Bill Shankly | The Life of Robert Burns by James Back | Football | more |
| 3 May 1965 | Sheila Hancock | The Girl Guides' Handbook | Cat food | more |
| 10 May 1965 | Hayley Mills | Roget's Thesaurus | Writing materials | more |
| 17 May 1965 | Julian Herbage | Encyclopaedia | Aladdin's lamp | more |
| 24 May 1965 | Robert Marx | Webster's Dictionary | Binoculars | more |
| 31 May 1965 | Joseph Szigeti | Lady Muraski's The Tale of Gengi by Arthur Waley | Binoculars | more |
| 7 June 1965 | Hugh Lloyd | Anthology of the works of Charles Dickens | Writing materials | more |
| 14 June 1965 | Harold Pinter | Anthology of 16th, 17th and 18th-century poetry | Writing materials | more |
| 21 June 1965 | Ginette Spanier | Notebook and pencil | Silver box | more |
| 28 June 1965 | Maxwell Knight | The Cambridge Natural History | Microscope | more |
| 5 July 1965 | Mary Stocks | The collected novels of Jane Austen | Radio receiver | more |
| 12 July 1965 | Sir Lewis Casson | No book requested | Recorder and a 1912 portrait of Dame Sybil Thorndike | more |
| 19 July 1965 | Sir William Walton | The Golden Bough by James Frazer | Small piece of sculpture | more |
| 26 July 1965 | Annie Ross | The Sun is My Undoing by Marguerite Steen | False eyelashes | more |
| 2 August 1965 | Ambrose | The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins | Tea bags | more |
| 9 August 1965 | Harry Corbett | The Best of Beachcomber | Trumpet | more |
| 16 August 1965 | MacDonald Hastings | Field guide to flora and fauna on the island | Handkerchiefs | more |
| 23 August 1965 | William Hartnell | English Social History by G M Trevelyan | Cigarettes | more |
| 30 August 1965 | William Connor | The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame | Pair of braces and hot water system | more |
| 6 September 1965 | Rae Jenkins | The Way of a Trout with a Fly by G E M Skues | Fly-tying materials | more |
| 13 September 1965 | Ian Hunter | The collected works of T S Eliot | Cigars | more |
| 20 September 1965 | Rita Tushingham | Plays and Prefaces by George Bernard Shaw | Albert Memorial | more |
| 27 September 1965 | Reverend David Sheppard | Volumes of reproductions of works of Dutch painters | Writing materials | more |
| 4 October 1965 | Robert Carrier | Cuisine et Vins de France by Curnonsky | Burgundy wine | more |
| 11 October 1965 | Adele Leigh | The Second World War by Sir Winston Churchill | Make-up table | more |
| 18 October 1965 | Nadia Nerina | Illustrated book on Greek mythology | Piece of sculpture | more |
| 25 October 1965 | Peter Hall | The letters of John Keats | Harpsichord | more |
| 1 November 1965 | Sir John Rothenstein | The works of Dante Aligheri | Hot water system | more |
| 8 November 1965 | Constance Shacklock | Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood by Mary Strong | Bed | more |
| 15 November 1965 | Sir Robert Mayer | Blank book and pencil | Piano | more |
| 22 November 1965 | Hildegarde | The Drill of a Soul by Pope John XXIII | Face and hand creams | more |
| 29 November 1965 | Lord Robens | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon | Electric razor with batteries | more |
| 6 December 1965 | John Hanson | Manual of orchestration | Piano, music manuscript paper and pencil | more |
| 13 December 1965 | General Frederick Coutts | Oxford Dictionary of Quotations | Salvation Army crest | more |
| 20 December 1965 | Sir William Coldstream | Encyclopaedia | Paper and pencils | more |
| 27 December 1965 | Michael Flanders | Blank book and pencils | Horn | more |

## 1966

| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 January 1966 | Jimmy Shand | The Second World War by Sir Winston Churchill | Tin whistle | more |
| 3 January 1966 | Professor W. E. Swinton | Whitaker's Almanac | Library | more |
| 10 January 1966 | Patience Strong | Complete Works by William Wordsworth | Indian painting showing the crucifixion | more |
| 24 January 1966 | Charlton Heston | Encyclopædia Britannica | Tennis practice equipment | more |
| 31 January 1966 | Tommy Simpson | The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens | Golfing equipment | more |
| 7 February 1966 | Christopher Hopper | History of England | Landscape by Constable | more |
| 14 February 1966 | Andrew Cruickshank | Journal by Søren Kierkegaard | Renoir's The Bear at the Folies Bergere | more |
| 21 February 1966 | Marie Collier | Mrs Mackintosh My Darling by Marguerite Young | Etruscan frieze of horses | more |
| 28 February 1966 | Cyril Connolly | A La Recherche du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust | Foam rubber sleeping bag | more |
| 7 March 1966 | Bill Fraser | Italian language course | Writing materials | more |
| 14 March 1966 | Sir Frank Francis | The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope | Golf clubs and balls | more |
| 21 March 1966 | G. O. Nickalls | Pear's Cyclopedia | Rembrandt's Titus | more |
| 28 March 1966 | Sara Leighton | Poetry by T. S. Eliot | Michelangelo's Pieta | more |
| 4 April 1966 | Hubert Gregg | History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Sir Winston Churchill | Pink champagne | more |
| 11 April 1966 | Terry Scott | French language course | Eau de Cologne | more |
| 18 April 1966 | Alan Bullock | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Writing materials | more |
| 25 April 1966 | Bob & Alf Pearson | ABC Railway Timetable and History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Sir Winston Churchill | Seeds and a piano | more |
| 2 May 1966 | Lord Soper | Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome | Trombone | more |
| 9 May 1966 | Inia Te Wiata | Arts and Crafts of the Maori People by Hamilton | Painting by Michelangelo | more |
| 16 May 1966 | Henry Cooper | Do-it-yourself manual | Training gear | more |
| 23 May 1966 | Emily MacManus | Kim by Rudyard Kipling | Foam rubber mattress and mosquito net | more |
| 30 May 1966 | Bill Simpson | Songs and poems by Robert Burns | Sports equipment | more |
| 6 June 1966 | Charles Craig | Who's Who | Bed | more |
| 13 June 1966 | Nina & Frederik | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon | A harp and a flute | more |
| 20 June 1966 | Lilli Palmer | Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Painting materials | more |
| 27 June 1966 | Wilfred Andrews | Press cutting albums | Painting materials | more |
| 4 July 1966 | Ninette de Valois | Poetry by W.B. Yeats | Writing materials | more |
| 11 July 1966 | Sir Stanley Rous | Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson | Field glasses | more |
| 18 July 1966 | Jennifer Vyvyan | Her favourite novels by Charles Dickens | Painting equipment | more |
| 25 July 1966 | Virginia McKenna | On Playing With Lions by Bill Travers | Writing materials | more |
| 1 August 1966 | Nat Gonella | Collected short stories by Damon Runyon | Golf clubs and balls | more |
| 8 August 1966 | Michael Craig | The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame | Musical instrument | more |
| 15 August 1966 | Peter Diamand | Encyclopædia Britannica | Head of Nefertiti from the Berlin Museum | more |
| 22 August 1966 | Bryan Forbes | Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand | Roulette wheel | more |
| 29 August 1966 | Morecambe and Wise | Encyclopædia Britannica and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Sir Winston Churchill | Deck chair and a ticket machine | more |
| 5 September 1966 | David Hicks | A Le Recherche du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust | Mexican crystal skull | more |
| 12 September 1966 | Derek Oldham | Encyclopædia Britannica | Insect repellent | more |
| 19 September 1966 | June Ritchie | The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico | Onion plants | more |
| 26 September 1966 | Peter Wilson | His favourite novels by E. M. Forster | Bertholdo's Apollo | more |
| 3 October 1966 | Talbot Duckmanton | Diary by Samuel Pepys | Soap | more |
| 10 October 1966 | Katherine Whitehorn | Her favourite books by William Faulkner | Negligee | more |
| 17 October 1966 | Jacques Brunius | Complete works by Lewis Carroll | Broken and unplayable pop record | more |
| 24 October 1966 | Danny La Rue | Encyclopedia | Refrigerator | more |
| 31 October 1966 | Mitch Miller | Anthology of poetry | Oboe | more |
| 7 November 1966 | Arnold Wesker | No book | Selection of pictures | more |
| 14 November 1966 | Stephen Bishop | The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Piano | more |
| 21 November 1966 | Sarah Churchill | Reminisces of the early life by Sir Winston Churchill | Bath with hot water | more |
| 28 November 1966 | Anthony Burgess | Finnegans Wake by James Joyce | Music manuscript paper, pencils, and a rubber | more |
| 5 December 1966 | Captain John Ridgway & Sergent Chay Blyth | Dictionary and an anthology of poetry | Shaving kit and a leather armchair | more |
| 12 December 1966 | Leonard Cottrell | Collected works by Homer | Bronze statue of Poseidon | more |
| 19 December 1966 | Jack Brabham | Textbook on advanced mechanical engineering | None | more |
| 24 December 1966 | Gwendoline Kirby | The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien | Field glasses | more |
| 26 December 1966 | Georg Solti | Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Michelangelo's The Last Judgement | more |

## 1967

| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 2 January 1967 | Anne Sharpley | The Raft Book by Harold Gatty | Spices and Herbs | more |
| 9 January 1967 | René Cutforth | Cards of Identity by Nigel Dennis | Silk vests and pants | more |
| 16 January 1967 | Sheila Scott | In Search of the Miraculous and A New Model of the Universe by P. D. Ouspensky | Tobacco seeds | more |
| 23 January 1967 | Richard Goolden | Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb | Cigars and a dinner jacket | more |
| 30 January 1967 | Gerald Moore | Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians | Wine | more |
| 6 February 1967 | Renée Houston | Clochemerle by Gabriel Chevallier | Parsley | more |
| 13 February 1967 | Gerald Harper | How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie | Videotape or film of the full five-days' play of a Test match | more |
| 20 February 1967 | Clement Freud | Short stories by Damon Runyon | Still | more |
| 27 February 1967 | Arthur Negus | Dictionary of English Furniture by Ralph Edwards | Chippendale cabinet | more |
| 6 March 1967 | Hugh Griffith | Blank paper and pencils | Champagne | more |
| 13 March 1967 | Barry Briggs | Encyclopaedia | Surfboard | more |
| 20 March 1967 | Alan Whicker | Airways timetable | Typewriter and paper | more |
| 27 March 1967 | Dick Francis | The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles Lindbergh | Mirror | more |
| 3 April 1967 | Rolf Harris | Dusty by Frank Dalby Davison | Two tape recorders | more |
| 10 April 1967 | John Schlesinger | Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift | Insect repellent | more |
| 17 April 1967 | Sir Neville Cardus | Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell | Watercolour painting equipment | more |
| 24 April 1967 | Eric Porter | Essays by Michel de Montaigne | Telescope or microscope | more |
| 1 May 1967 | Walter Matthews | The Republic by Plato | Beginner's guide to making rafts | more |
| 8 May 1967 | Derek Nimmo | Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Pottery and Porcelain by Geoffrey Godden | Garlic | more |
| 15 May 1967 | George Woodcock | Philosophic works by William Warren Bartley | Cornet | more |
| 22 May 1967 | John Barry | The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis | Piano | more |
| 29 May 1967 | David Ward | Collected works by Robert Burns | Painting materials | more |
| 5 June 1967 | Fenella Fielding | Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons | French silk-lined leather gloves | more |
| 12 June 1967 | Xenia Field | Encyclopaedia | Mattress | more |
| 19 June 1967 | Raymond Huntley | Cakes and Ale, The Razor's Edge and The Circle by W. Somerset Maugham | Whisky | more |
| 26 June 1967 | Peter Ritchie Calder | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Tape recorder | more |
| 3 July 1967 | Roy Hudd | How to be a Comedian by Lupino Lane | Snow globe | more |
| 10 July 1967 | Henry Longhurst | Diary by Samuel Pepys | Still | more |
| 17 July 1967 | Henryk Szeryng | Essays by Michel de Montaigne | Painting by Camille Pissarro | more |
| 24 July 1967 | Tom Courtenay | Great Expectations by Charles Dickens | Football | more |
| 31 July 1967 | Heather Jenner | The Pickwick Papers, Bleak House and Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens | Golf clubs and balls | more |
| 7 August 1967 | Miriam Karlin | Dialogues by Plato | Perfume | more |
| 14 August 1967 | Jeremy Thorpe | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon | Violin | more |
| 21 August 1967 | Richard Briers | Plays and novels by Samuel Beckett | Piano | more |
| 28 August 1967 | Alan Bennett | Complete set of Horizon by Cyril Connolly | Unending supply of afternoon teas | more |
| 4 September 1967 | John Ogdon | Collection of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle | Film projector | more |
| 11 September 1967 | Michael Hordern | Encyclopaedia | Piano | more |
| 18 September 1967 | William Warwick | Advanced book on building small boats | Case of whisky and a knife | more |
| 25 September 1967 | Doris Arnold | The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett | Mink coat | more |
| 2 October 1967 | Roy Castle | Sounds and Scores by Henry Mancini | Piano | more |
| 9 October 1967 | André Previn | Volume of reproductions of paintings | Piano | more |
| 16 October 1967 | Kenneth Wolstenholme | Blank pages | Golf clubs and balls | more |
| 23 October 1967 | Denis Brogan | Works by Dante Alighieri | Writing materials | more |
| 30 October 1967 | Denis Matthews | The Loom of Language by Frederick Bodmer | Telescope | more |
| 6 November 1967 | Hugh Casson | Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby and Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens | Writing materials | more |
| 13 November 1967 | Warren Mitchell | Anthology of verse | Tenor saxophone | more |
| 20 November 1967 | Irene Worth | Textbook on anthropology | The Beatles new colour television show | more |
| 27 November 1967 | Jacques Loussier | Beasts, Men and Gods by Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski | Crucifixion by Salvador Dalí | more |
| 4 December 1967 | Philip Clayton | Patrologiae cursus completus by Jacques Paul Migne | Pipes, tobacco, matches and a compass | more |
| 11 December 1967 | Edward Boyle | In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust | Drawing of a lady by Walter Sickert | more |
| 18 December 1967 | Robert Merrill | The Source by James A. Michener | Moses by Michelangelo | more |
| 23 December 1967 | Gladys Cooper | Anthology of poetry | Tape recorder | more |
| 25 December 1967 | Colin Davis | Persian dictionary | Packing case of books including a Persian dictionary | more |

## 1968

| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 January 1968 | Ann Mallalieu | Collected works by Jane Austen | Four-poster bed | more |
| 8 January 1968 | Desmond Morris | The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Richard Francis Burton | Snorkel mask | more |
| 15 January 1968 | John Williams | Encyclopaedia | Guitar | more |
| 22 January 1968 | John Mortimer | In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust | Marble bath with constant hot water | more |
| 29 January 1968 | John Bird | The Lives of the Poets by Samuel Johnson | Self-operated nuclear strike force | more |
| 5 February 1968 | Susan Hampshire | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Painting or a 16th-century patch box | more |
| 12 February 1968 | Marilyn Horne | Selection of English poetry | Michelangelo's Pietà | more |
| 19 February 1968 | Bill Boorne | Other Men's Flowers by Archibald Wavell | Snooker table | more |
| 26 February 1968 | Cecil Day-Lewis | Short stories by Anton Chekhov | Bourbon whiskey | more |
| 4 March 1968 | Rosalinde Fuller | Blank pages and pencils | Full-length mirror | more |
| 11 March 1968 | Archie Camden | Books by Ernest Bramah | Radio receiver | more |
| 18 March 1968 | T. Dan Smith | Italian Townscape by Ivor de Wolfe | Block of stone | more |
| 25 March 1968 | Jon Vickers | Report to Greco by Saki | Child's ball | more |
| 1 April 1968 | Alfie Bass | Encyclopaedia | | more |
| 8 April 1968 | Russell Braddon | History of the World | Red ink | more |
| 15 April 1968 | Maggie Teyte | | | more |
| 22 April 1968 | Sir Nicholas Sekers | In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust | Deckchair | more |
| 29 April 1968 | Michael Tippett | Odyssey by Homer | Harmonium | more |
| 6 May 1968 | Margaret Drabble | In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust | Typewriter and paper | more |
| 13 May 1968 | Leslie Sarony | Collected works by Winston Churchill | Ukulele | more |
| 20 May 1968 | Trevor Nunn | Yoga manual | Kingsize cigarette | more |
| 27 May 1968 | Janet Baker | The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien | Doll's house | more |
| 3 June 1968 | Sydney Gordon Russell | The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White | Claret | more |
| 10 June 1968 | Colin Cowdrey | Wisden that records his first tour of Australia | Box of rubber balls | more |
| 17 June 1968 | Henry Hall | Manuals to learn foreign languages | Magic lamp | more |
| 24 June 1968 | Eleanor Bron | Bi-lingual edition by Homer | Sycamore trees | more |
| 1 July 1968 | Gilbert Inglefield | A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell | Sandro Botticelli's The Mystical Nativity | more |
| 8 July 1968 | Francis Durbridge | Plays and Prefaces by George Bernard Shaw | Still Life with Oriental Rug by Henri Matisse | more |
| 15 July 1968 | Thora Hird | History of the world | Insect repellent | more |
| 22 July 1968 | Eric Shipton | The Human Situation by William Macneile Dixon | Snorkel mask | more |
| 29 July 1968 | Edward Chapman | Novels by Jane Austen | Cigarettes and whisky | more |
| 5 August 1968 | Louis Armstrong | His autobiography | Trumpet | more |
| 12 August 1968 | Francis McLean | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon | Dutch flower picture in the Wallace Collection | more |
| 19 August 1968 | Carlo Maria Giulini | The Mirror of Perfection - The Praise of Created Things by Francis of Assisi | | more |
| 26 August 1968 | Edwige Feuillère | Anglo-French dictionary | Ivory ball | more |
| 2 September 1968 | Ngaio Marsh | Anthology of poetry | Two Chinese figures of musicians | more |
| 9 September 1968 | Richard Rodney Bennett | The Atlantic Book by Edith Sitwell | Piano | more |
| 16 September 1968 | Anne Godwin | Other Men's Flowers by Archibald Wavell | Champagne | more |
| 23 September 1968 | Marty Feldman | The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Piano | more |
| 30 September 1968 | Richard Lester | Guinness Book of Records | Harp | more |
| 7 October 1968 | Billy Russell | Encyclopaedia | Painting materials | more |
| 14 October 1968 | Raymond Postgate | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon | Claret | more |
| 21 October 1968 | Barbara Murray | Larousse Gastronomique | Perfume | more |
| 28 October 1968 | Richard Baker | Novels by Jane Austen | Bed | more |
| 4 November 1968 | Peggy Mount | Complete works by Oscar Wilde | Enormous cookery book | more |
| 11 November 1968 | Dan Maskell | Books by Henry Longhurst | Tennis balls, golf balls, pencil and paper | more |
| 13 November 1968 | Paul Gore-Booth | Books by Mary Baker Eddy | Piano | more |
| 18 November 1968 | C. H. Jaeger | Anthology of modern British poetry | Chess set | more |
| 25 November 1968 | Sandy Powell | My Autobiography by Charlie Chaplin | Violin | more |
| 9 December 1968 | Des Wilson | Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe | Typewriter and paper | more |
| 16 December 1968 | Asa Briggs | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon | BBC Archives from 1945 to 1954 | more |
| 23 December 1968 | Arthur Askey | Golf instruction book | Golf clubs and balls | more |
| 25 December 1968 | Rosea Kemp | Enquire Within Upon Everything | Four-poster bed | more |
| 30 December 1968 | Bob Braithwaite | The Second World War by Winston Churchill | Piano | more |

## 1969

| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 6 January 1969 | Heather Harper | Encyclopaedia | Knitting wool and needles | more |
| 13 January 1969 | Alan Pegler | Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle | Insect repellent | more |
| 20 January 1969 | Maurice Jacobson | Paperback detective stories | Caviar | more |
| 27 January 1969 | Maggie Fitzgibbon | The Birdman of Alcatraz by Robert Stroud | Alabaster cherub | more |
| 3 February 1969 | Lord David Cecil | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Donatello's great altar in Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua | more |
| 12 February 1969 | Hylda Baker | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell | Family photograph album | more |
| 17 February 1969 | Edward Downes | Encyclopaedia | Chinese language course | more |
| 24 February 1969 | Angus Wilson | Volume on mathematical logic | Champagne | more |
| 3 March 1969 | Zena Skinner | The Second World War by Winston Churchill | Tape recorder | more |
| 10 March 1969 | Mary Wilson | Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë | Make-up set, mirror and comb | more |
| 17 March 1969 | L. Marsland Gander | Encyclopaedia | Telescope | more |
| 24 March 1969 | Lady Diana Cooper | Volumes of her autobiography | Bag of pillows, in which she will smuggle in her dog | more |
| 31 March 1969 | Jill Bennett | Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov | Perfume | more |
| 7 April 1969 | Alec Rose | History of England | Radio receiver | more |
| 14 April 1969 | Hetty King | History of the world | Parrot | more |
| 21 April 1969 | Mary Stewart | Encyclopaedia | Paper and pencils | more |
| 28 April 1969 | Elsie Hall | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Billiard table, cue and balls | more |
| 5 May 1969 | Alvar Lidell | Oxford English Dictionary | Playing cards | more |
| 12 May 1969 | Nicolai Gedda | The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Rubber mattress | more |
| 19 May 1969 | Virginia Wade | Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management | Writing and sketching materials | more |
| 26 May 1969 | Ginger Rogers | Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy | Painting equipment | more |
| 2 June 1969 | Antonia Fraser | Aeneid by Virgil | Typewriter and paper | more |
| 9 June 1969 | Stanford Robinson | Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians | Radio receiver | more |
| 16 June 1969 | John Trevelyan | Airways timetable | Piano | more |
| 23 June 1969 | Evelyn Laye | A Treatise on White Magic by Alice Bailey | Cosmetics | more |
| 30 June 1969 | Kenneth More | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon | Mattress | more |
| 7 July 1969 | Leonard Henry | Thesaurus | Piano | more |
| 14 July 1969 | Vincent Price | Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Double bed | more |
| 21 July 1969 | Peter Pears | Tropical Plants and Their Cultivation by Louis Bruggeman | Bed | more |
| 28 July 1969 | Rachael Heyhoe Flint | Book on desert island cookery | Ukulele | more |
| 4 August 1969 | Cyril Harmer | The Second World War by Winston Churchill | Centrally-heated sleeping bag | more |
| 11 August 1969 | Stanley Rubinstein | Survey of London by John Stow | Family photograph album | more |
| 18 August 1969 | Hermione Gingold | Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management | Barrel of lipstick | more |
| 25 August 1969 | Olivia Manning | On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson | Clue to buried treasure | more |
| 1 September 1969 | Des O'Connor | Encyclopaedia | Daily delivery of The Sporting Life | more |
| 8 September 1969 | Robin Day | The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations | Champagne | more |
| 13 September 1969 | Donald Zec | The Wallet of Kai Lung by Ernest Bramah | Ice cream machine | more |
| 20 September 1969 | Sir John Wolfenden | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Tape recorder | more |
| 27 September 1969 | Cliff Morgan | Teach-yourself encyclopaedia | Piano | more |
| 4 October 1969 | Thea Holme | Works by Beatrix Potter | Writing and painting materials | more |
| 11 October 1969 | Henry Williamson | The Story of My Heart by Richard Jefferies | Cor anglais | more |
| 18 October 1969 | Max Adrian | Blank pages and pencils | Tapestry-making materials | more |
| 25 October 1969 | Raymond Mays | Gaiety, Theatre of Enchantment by W. J. MacQueen-Pope | Umbrella | more |
| 1 November 1969 | Anthony Grey | Dictionary | Book stall in London Victoria station | more |
| 8 November 1969 | Evelyn Rothwell | Encyclopaedia | Writing materials | more |
| 15 November 1969 | Dudley Moore | Study of psychology | Piano | more |
| 22 November 1969 | Irmgard Seefried | Herr, Hier Bin Ich (Prayers of Life) | String of pearls | more |
| 29 November 1969 | Lillian Board | Family photograph album | Bed | more |
| 6 December 1969 | Godfrey Baseley | Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary | Bed | more |
| 13 December 1969 | Moira Anderson | Scouting for Boys by Robert Baden-Powell | Bathroom suite | more |
| 20 December 1969 | Bernard Montgomery | His own book A Concise History of Warfare | Piano | more |
| 27 December 1969 | Tommy Steele | Dictionary of Word and Phrase | Sports car | more |

## 1970

| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 3 January 1970 | Fyfe Robertson | General Semantics | Cello | more |
| 10 January 1970 | Leonard Sachs | David Copperfield by Charles Dickens | Radio receiver | more |
| 17 January 1970 | Val Doonican | Big Anthology | Guitar | more |
| 24 January 1970 | Alan S. C. Ross | A Course of Modern Analysis by E. T. Whittaker | Television set | more |
| 31 January 1970 | Stanley Baxter | Memoirs by Louis de Rouvroy | Koh-i-Noor diamond | more |
| 7 February 1970 | Isidore Godfrey | Symphony scores by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Piano | more |
| 14 February 1970 | Frank Gillard | Naturalist's guide | Set of lenses | more |
| 21 February 1970 | Richard Church | Oxford English Dictionary | Writing materials | more |
| 28 February 1970 | Isobel Baillie | Our Hearts Were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner | Guitar | more |
| 7 March 1970 | Roy Strong | Larousse Gastronomique by Prosper Montagné | Johannes Vermeer's View Of Delft | more |
| 14 March 1970 | Richard Chamberlain | Oxford Book of English Verse | Painting materials | more |
| 21 March 1970 | Judy Hashman | Anthology of English Verse | Stamp album | more |
| 28 March 1970 | Nyree Dawn Porter | The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber | Umbrella | more |
| 4 April 1970 | Sheridan Russell | The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis | Cello | more |
| 11 April 1970 | Deryck Guyler | Hannibal by Theodore Ayrault Dodge | Roman helmet in the British Museum | more |
| 18 April 1970 | James Lockhart | Collected works by John Donne | Piano | more |
| 25 April 1970 | Gavin de Beer | Small Talk at Wreyland by Cecil Torr | Typewriter | more |
| 2 May 1970 | Gina Cigna | Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard by Anatole France | Piano | more |
| 9 May 1970 | Carol Channing | My Life in Art by Constantin Stanislavski | Writing materials | more |
| 16 May 1970 | Graham Usher | Collected works by Beatrix Potter | Winged Victory of Samothrace in Musée du Louvre | more |
| 23 May 1970 | Andy Stewart | Collected works by Robert Burns | Writing materials | more |
| 30 May 1970 | Keith Michell | I Ching | Painting materials | more |
| 6 June 1970 | Monica Dickens | Roget's Thesaurus | Writing materials | more |
| 13 June 1970 | Barbara Windsor | History of Great Britain | Hair pieces | more |
| 20 June 1970 | Ida Haendel | Survival manual | Writing materials | more |
| 27 June 1970 | Vidal Sassoon | Thesaurus | Piece of sculpture by Baracal | more |
| 4 July 1970 | Robin Knox-Johnston | The Outline of History by H. G. Wells | Writing materials | more |
| 11 July 1970 | Barbara Cartland | The Knave of Hearts by Louise Saunders | Makeup box | more |
| 18 July 1970 | John Piper | Ulysses by James Joyce | Pillow | more |
| 25 July 1970 | Joan Hammond | Oxford English Dictionary | Toothbrush and toothpaste | more |
| 1 August 1970 | Terry-Thomas | His book Filling the Gap | Brandy | more |
| 8 August 1970 | David Davis | Religio Medici by Thomas Browne | Pipes and tobacco | more |
| 15 August 1970 | Erich Leinsdorf | Goethe's Faust | Insect repellent | more |
| 22 August 1970 | Freya Stark | Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 Edition | Bath with a hot-water system | more |
| 29 August 1970 | Dick Emery | A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens | Bed | more |
| 5 September 1970 | Ellen Pollock | Collected works by George Bernard Shaw | Her husband's painting of their son | more |
| 12 September 1970 | Helen Watts | Illustrated book on gardening | Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas | more |
| 19 September 1970 | A. P. Herbert | Collected works by Charles Dickens | Binoculars | more |
| 26 September 1970 | Harry Carpenter | Encyclopædia Britannica | Guitar | more |
| 3 October 1970 | Carrie Tubb | The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations | Parasol | more |
| 10 October 1970 | Lynn Redgrave | The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer | Excerpt from the BBC recording Just William | more |
| 17 October 1970 | Sári Barabás | Works by Leo Slezak | Knitting needles and wool | more |
| 24 October 1970 | John Lill | Modern Chess Openings | Piano | more |
| 31 October 1970 | Joan Whittington | Law study course | Radio receiver | more |
| 7 November 1970 | Vilém Tauský | Encyclopedia | Watch | more |
| 14 November 1970 | Margaret Powell | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon | Tahitian language course | more |
| 21 November 1970 | David Hughes | Walden by Henry David Thoreau | Golf clubs and balls | more |
| 28 November 1970 | Diana Rigg | Primary Instruction in all languages | Vegetable garden | more |
| 5 December 1970 | Wally Herbert | Anthology of World Poetry | | more |
| 12 December 1970 | Arthur Lowe | Book on tropical plants | Claret (a dozen cases) | more |
| 19 December 1970 | Ivan Mauger | Survival manual | Box of family photographs | more |
| 26 December 1970 | Quentin Poole | Novels by Agatha Christie | Flute and music | more |
