Nicola’s island coffee demand

The complete works of Jane Austen and a coffee machine would accompany Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon if she was adrift on a desert island.

Ms Sturgeon also said she would spend her time listening to the Robert Burns song My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose – which was played at her wedding to SNP chief executive Peter Murrell.

The SNP leader is the latest politician to take part inBBCRadioFour’s Desert Island Discs.

Ms Sturgeonadmitted she is unlikely to be reading Austen and drinking coffee for long, after telling presenter Kirsty Young that she is

“I am going to take a coffee machine”

“not practical in the slightest”.

Ms Sturgeon said: “I amgoing to take a coffee machine, because the one thing I cannot do without in the morning is my injection of caffeine. What I take with me is pretty academic because I won’t survive for very long.”

Joining Young as a castaway, Ms Sturgeon also picked out eight records shewouldlike to take to the desert island, selecting the Burns song as sung by Eddi Reader as the one she would most like to save.

“This is special to me, partly because I love Robert Burns, but also because this song was played just before Peter and I took our vows at our wedding,” she said.