| Music | Mel Torme, Carmen McRae, The Beatles, Blossom Dearie, Dave Frishberg, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Anita O'Day, Frank Sinatra, Henry Mancini, Art Tatum, Ben Webster, Everything But The Girl, Glenn Gould, Stan Getz, Harry Nilsson, Sondheim, Ian Bostridge, Jaco Pastorius, Jeri Southern, Bill Evans, Johnny Hartman, June Christy, Keith Jarrett, Lotte Lenya, Mark Murphy, Dave Grusin, Matt Monro, Pet Shop Boys, The Smiths, Mahler, Billie Holiday, Schubert, Britten, Peggy Lee, Nina Simone, Rufus Wainwright, Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Brookmeyer, Shostakovich, Tony Bennett, Kurt Weill, Willie Nelson, | | Television | Coronation Street and the news. That's about it. Oh - and Crimewatch which I adore. | | Books | Philip Roth, Charles Dickens, Ian McEwan, cookery books without pictures, European crime fiction, crime fiction generally, Michael Cunningham, Colm Toibin, Richard Yates, Patricia Highsmith, Peter Ackroyd, Graham Greene, JG Ballard, great fat American state-of-the-nation novels, Jodie Marsh. | | Heroes | Dave Frishberg, Patricia Highsmith, Neil Kinnock, Simon Hopkinson. Also: Anyone who doesn't achieve much until they're forty - it makes me feel considerably better about myself. |
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