Music, Motorbikes, Beer making (and drinking), Food, Cooking, Bee keeping, Gardening, Walking, Arboriculture, BBC Radio 4
LCD Soundsystem, Pulp, The Breeders, Joy Division, The Wedding Present, The Pixies, Tindersticks, Galaxie 500, Super Furry Animals, Low, Smog, MC Mabon, Cat Power, Teenage Fanclub, My Bloody Valentine, The Flaming Lips, The La's, Gram Parsons, Lambchop, early REM, Polly Jean Harvey, Belle and Sebastian, Madder Rose, Bob Dylan, The Smiths, Mercury Rev, Suicide, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Neil Young, Talking Heads, Radiohead, The Arcade Fire, Van Morrison, The Fall, Grandaddy, The White Stripes, Woody Guthrie, Aphex Twin, Spiritualized, Spacemen 3, Nick Drake, Mogwai, Arab Strap, Sparklehorse, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Wilco, Sultans of Ping FC, Stereolab, Woody Guthrie, Mazzy Star, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Doves, Ride, Amy Winehouse, Butthole Surfers, Grinderman, Led Zeppelin, Jesus and Mary Chain, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, The Libertines, Dinosaur Jr.
Mean Streets, The Goonies, ET, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Etre Et Avoir, Jean de Florette, Manon de Source, The Gloire de mon Pere, The Chateau de ma Mere, It's a Wonderful Life, Gremlins, The Vanishing (Spoorloos, not the happy ending US remake!), My Life as a Dog, Ghostbusters, Raging Bull, 2001, Apocalypse Now
Vic Reeves Big Night Out, Brass Eye, The Day Today, The League of Gentlemen, The Adam and Joe Show, Alan Partridge, Gardeners World, River Cottage, Jimmy's Farm, Rick Stein, Lost, Stephen Poliakoff
William Shakepeare, Iain Banks, Ian McEwan, Louis de Bernieres, Evelyn Waugh, Matthew Sweet, Yann Martel