Favourite Things
FAVOURITE THINGS
Anne Bancroft (actress, 1931 – 2005)
Barbican Library (Barbican, EC2Y)
Battersea Park (Battersea SW11)
Battersea Power Station (Battersea SW11)
BBC4 television channel
BBC7 radio station
BBC World Service
Alan Bleasdale (screenwriter)
Bringing up Baby (film, 1938, starring CARY GRANT)
Agatha Christie (author, 1890 – 1976)
Nat ‘King’ Cole (singer, 1919 – 1965)
Columbo (fab US detective)
Jonathan Creek (television detective)
RF (Ronald Frederick) Delderfield, author (1912 – 1972)
Dame Judi Dench (actress)
Dante’s Divine Comedy
Family Guy (bloody funny US cartoon)
David Fawcett (artist)
Stephen Fry (broadcaster, novelist, actor)
The Gherkin/30 St Mary Axe (fab fab tower, Bishopsgate EC1)
Cary Grant (actor, 1904 – 1986)
Granta Magazine
Sir Alec Guinness (actor, 1914 – 2000) and this fabulous photograph of him
Tony Hart (artist and children’s television presenter, 1925 – 2009)
Audrey Hepburn (actress, 1929 – 1993)
Damian Hirst (artist)
Hornsey Library (Crouch End N8)
Ngaio Marsh (author, 1895 – 1982)
Inspector Morse (television detective created by Colin Dexter)
Julie London (singer and actress, 1926 – 2000)
Janice Long show (broadcast Sun – Thurs on BBC Radio 2)
Kraftwerk (electronica band from Germany)
Malcolm McLaren (impresario, 1946 – 2010)
Marylebone Library (Marylebone W1)
Old Vic Theatre (Waterloo SE1)
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Paddington Library (Bayswater W2)
Phoebe the cat
St Pancras Station (King’s Cross NW1)
Larry Parnes (impresario, 1930 – 1989)
Stephen Poliakoff (screenwriter)
Dennis Potter (screenwriter, 1935 – 1994)
Oliver Postgate (1925 – 2008) and Peter Firmin (animators, writers and puppeteers)
Leonard Rossiter (actor, 1926 – 1984)
The Royal Academy (Piccadilly W1)
Royal Court Theatre (Sloane Square SW3)
Delia Smith (television cook)
The Smiths/Morrissey (Manchester band and singer)
Soho Baptist Church (Soho WC2)
Dusty Springfield (singer, 1939 – 1999)
Sir Peter Ustinov (actor, writer and raconteur, 1921 – 2004)
Julie Walters (actress)
Waltham Forest Town Hall (Walthamstow E17)
John William Waterhouse (painter, 1849 – 1917)
Waterloo Bridge
Westminster Cathedral (Victoria SE1)
Oscar Wilde (writer and wit, 1854 – 1900)
Kenneth Williams (actor, diarist and raconteur, 1926 – 1988)
Lord Peter Wimsey (Dorothy L Sayers character)
Woman’s Hour (broadcast weekdays on BBC Radio 4)
Victoria Wood (comedian, screenwriter)
Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister (UK political comedy series from the 1970s)
