Andrew Marr
New York No Wave, post-punk, David Bowie up to and including Let’s Dance, late 70s punk rock, aleatoric music, eighteenth century symphonies, late Romantic piano compositions, 80s synthpop, Gregorian chants, avant-pop, New Wave, the cheeky bits of Britpop, Tamla motown, anything produced by Giorgio Moroder, Mongolian throat singers, twelve-bar blues, glam, ragtime, birdsong, beats, harmony, melody, etc.
I don't own a television, which is officially 'well mad'. Marquee Moon, however, is amazing.
Recent reading... War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon End Zone by Don Delillo