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Countdown with ...
Andrew Taylor
Website: http://www.andrew-taylor.co.uk
Interviewed 26 February 2024
Ten words to sum up your working life to date ...
A journey without maps. So far so good. What next?
Nine things you can see from where you're sitting ...
iMac, Evelyn’s Diary, Moleskin notebook, penknife, noticeboard, bookshelves, Panama hat, filing cabinet, camel saddlecloth.
Eight minutes to prepare a meal. What's it going to be ?
Open wine, microwave jacket potato, add olive oil, salt and pepper, grate cheese, rinse salad, pour wine.
Seven people you'd like to go for a drink with ...
Patricia Highsmith, Agatha Christie, Bob Dylan, P G Wodehouse, Jane Austen of course, Charles II, and the grandpa I never knew.
Six things you can't live without ...
Espressos, red wine, my family, my publisher, my agent, the Forest of Dean.
Five favourite words ...
Supper, hinterland, chocolate, wildwood, schadenfreude.
Four places you'd run away to ...
Rome, Crete, Pembrokeshire, Co Cork.
Three books you've bought recently ...
The Romantic by William Boyd
The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
George III by Andrew Roberts
Two things that make you rant ...
Brexit, unkindness.
One thing you'd tell your teenage self ...
Just go for it.