Ella Fitzgerald, The Kinks, 60s Music in general, Swing Jazz, Vampire Weekend, Radiohead, Chopin, Mozart, The Zombies, George Brassens, Charles Aznavour, Gotye, The Crookes.
Favourite TV Shows
Blackadder, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Black Books, House, QI, Jeeves and Wooster, Yes, Minister, Q and A, The Promise, The Hour.
Favourite Movies
The English Patient, The History Boys, The Constant Gardener, La Chinoise, The Beat My Heart Skipped, Bright Star, Trainspotting, Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, Philadelphia Story, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Rebel without a Cause, The Century of the Self, Anything by David Attenborough
Favourite Books
Anything by Austen, Fitzgerald Woolf, Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Chekhov, Wodehouse, Henry James, Agatha Christie and Tolstoy.
The Secret History, The Surgeon of Crowthorne, Hamlet, What is History?, Brideshead Revisited, Hitch-22,
Favourite Quote
Hector: The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - that you'd thought special