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  • Rachel Pantechnicon (a performance poet with a little extra!)
  • Simon Munnery (my fave stand-up)
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  • Anyone who tries to make a difference
  • Hans Ruesch
  • Harry Hoxsey
  • Mark Twain
  • My best friend
  • My late English teacher
  • Quentin Crisp

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  • I, Claudius
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  • Anything by Alan Bennett
  • Anything by Charles Dickens
  • Anything by David Nobbs
  • Anything by Diana Athill
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  • Cancer as a Turning Point by Lawrence LeShan
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  • Kill Your Darlings - Terence Blacker
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  • Mrs Caudles' Curtain Lectures (19th C)
  • People Who Say Goodbye - P. Y. Betts
  • The Boy Who Saw True - Anon
  • The Young Visiters - Daisy Ashford

Favourite Films

  • After the Fox
  • Amelie
  • And The Sea Will Tell...
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  • The Ladykillers (proper version)
  • The Life and Death of Peter Sellars
  • The Man in The White Suit
  • The Return of The Pink Panther
  • The Sound of Music (against my will!)
  • The Star Chamber
  • The Truman Show
  • The Wicked Lady
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Together
  • Tony Hancock's The Rebel
  • Walk the Line

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Enjoying a late mis-spent youth. Twinned with Gwen Stefani
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'The Voice of Treason' - The Daily Bail
'You'll be hearing from my solicitors!' - Andrew Motion (Poet Laureate)
'You owe us £43.41 in Council Tax arrears' - Oxford City Council
'A Light Brigade of one charges into the silicon valley in a campaign against world insanity' - Exchange & Mart
'Write a single ode about Queenie and you're toast!' - Andrew Motion (Poet Laureate)
'We've placed a Thinwa on her. She doesn't seem to mind' - Muslim Feminist Today
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