Music from here. there and everywhere, books, films, changing the world in a small but meaningful way.
Sounds from across the planet: African, Balkan, blues, jazz, reggae & all things Caribbean, Latin American, soul, Asian, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean etc etcMy list of favourites changes every day.
Duck Soup, Gregory's Girl, This is Spinal Tap, Rashamon, Round Midnight, Double Indemnity, Mean Streets, Sulivan's Travels, Night of the Demon, The Conversation, Les Diaboliques, Shrek ...
Bilko, The Thick of It, Sopranos, I Claudius, Peep Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, Blackadder, Simpsons
Rohinton Mistry, Raymond Chandler, Margaret Atwood, 12 Bar Blues - Patrick Neate, War Crimes for the Home - Liz Jensen, George P. Pelecanos, Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehreneich, James Elroy, Jonathan Coe, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey, The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargos Llosa
Don't believe in them (but thanks for asking)