| Music | Maximo Park, The Smiths, Billy Bragg, Paul Weller, The Jam, Japan, Badly Drawn Boy, Editors, Arctic Monkeys, Hard-Fi, Kaiser Chiefs, Guillemots, The Killers, Razorlight, The View, Mumm-ra, We Are Scientists, The Kooks, Coldplay, Athlete, Corinne Bailey Rae, James Morrison, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, R.E.M., The Ordinary Boys and far too many more to mention.
| | Movies | Betty Blue, Léon, Amélie, Alfie (the Michael Caine version), Love Actually, Blue Velvet, 9 1/2 Weeks, The History Boys, Closer...
I love anything black and white, gritty and working class: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Kind of Loving, Up the Junction, Poor Cow, A Taste of Honey, Kes...
Favourite film so far this year is Bridge to Terabithia - best kids' film I've seen in ages, even if I did sob my eyes out in the middle of the cinema!
| | Television | My all-time favourite TV programme was This Life - not too sure about the Plus Ten reunion, though... Other faves include Big Brother, How To Look Good Naked, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, The F Word, Hotel Babylon, Coast, Social history programmes, documentaries, Skins...
Looking forward to Long Way Down later this year.
| | Books | A Kind of Loving, The Watchers on the Shore, The Right True End, The L-Shaped Room, L'Etranger, Moderato Cantabile, Bonjour Tristesse, 37°2 Le Matin, Absolute Beginners, The Catcher in The Rye, Brick Lane, Carrie's War, Tom's Midnight Garden, Charlotte Sometimes. Anything by Maggie O'Farrell, Julie Myerson, Deborah Moggach, Emily Barr...
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