Dr Who, Shakespeare, Comedy, the politics of the day always fascinate me, especially with regards to racism and homophobia. As I'm neither black nor gay, I'm not sure why such bigotry makes me so very angry, so suspect I'm the epitome of the weedy, white liberal. Still, it's better than being a git.
Ricardo Montalban
Any old thing really - except modern rubbish (unless it's catchy). Madness, The Specials, Pulp, Violent Femmes, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Tracy Chapman, The Neville Brothers (not the footballers), : I just don't really like that noisy thumpy stuff that idiots dance to or smug, dull people insist on putting on at parties to replace something everyone else knows and likes.
12 Angry Men, LA Confidential, Quatermass II, Assault On Precinct 13 (the original), The Great Escape, The Untouchables, A Matter Of Life and Death etc etc
Doctor Who, Quatermass, The Prisoner, anything by Dennis Potter, Buffy, Angel, Firefly (Joss Whedon can do no wrong and should be canonised), Our Friends In The North, The West Wing, 24, Edge Of Darkness, Nightingales, The Office, League Of Gentlemen, Alan Partridge, Survivors, and don't forget Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares (oh, and for a guilty pleasure: Ultimate Force, by far the funniest thing on TV)
1984, James Ellroy's stuff, The Long Firm, but mostly autobiographies or political memoirs (get me!).
Doctor Who (notice a pattern?): not one real's ever quite managed to come close.