My Favourites
Films
1) Dr Zhivago
2) My Fair Lady
3) Once Upon A Time In The West
4) James Bond/007 (all 20)
5) Zulu
6) The Last of The Mohicans
7) Where Eagles Dare
8) The 'Dollars' Trilogy
9) Saturday Night Fever
10) Lawrence of Arabia
11) The Abyss
12) Cromwell
13) Schindler's List
14) The Scarlet Pimpernel
15) Jaws
16) Shampoo
17) Lord Of The Rings (Trilogy)
18) Ben Hur
19) Candy
20) Easy Rider
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Television Programmes
1) BBC - News
2) BBC - Nature and Wildlife Programmes ( David Attenborough !)
3) BBC - Fawlty Towers
4) BBC - Eastenders
5) BBC - Sports / Grandstand
6) BBC - Childrens TV
7) BBC - Yes Minister/Prime Minister
8) USA - Married with Children
9) BBC - The Good Life
10) BBC - Comedy
11) BBC - Drama
12) BBC - Question Time
13) BBC - Panorama
14) BBC - Z Cars
15) ITV - Sports
16) ITV - Coronation Street
17) BBC - Blue Peter
18) ITV - Magpie
19) BBC - Born and Bred
20) BBC - Dixon of Dock Green
21) BBC - Softly, Softly
22) BBC - Top of the Pops
23) BBC - Documentaries / Current Affairs
24) BBC - Michael Palin 'round the world'/Pole to Pole etc
25) BBC - Monty Python
Music Classical
1) 1812 Overture - Tchaikovsky
2) Bless The Lord , O My Soul op 31No. 2-6-28 - Sergei
Rachmaninov (Sung by Arkhapova)
3) The Planets Suite- Gustav Holst
4) Finlandia - Sibelius
5) Romeo and Juliet - Prokofiev
6) The Nutcracker Suite - Ballet by
Tchaikovsky
7) Swan Lake - Ballet By Tchaikovsky
8) En Saga - Sibelius
9) Carmen - Opera by Bizet ( version with Placido Domingo and Julia
)
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11) Nabucco - Opera by Verdi
12) Aida - Opera by Verdi
13) Vespers - Rachmaninov
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15)
16) - Edward Elgar
17) - Barber
18)
19) La Boheme - Puccini
20) Madam Butterfly - Puccini
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25)Tosca - Puccini
Music Non-Classical
1) Nights in White Satin
(single)- The
Moody Blues
2) Beauty and The Beast (single) - Stevie Nicks
3) Rumours (LP) - Fleetwood Mac
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5) Easy Rider (Soundtrack)
6) Saturday Night Fever
(Soundtrack)
7) Get Yer YA Ya's Out - Live Album - Rolling Stones
8) All along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
9) Badge - Cream
10)
11) Beautiful People - Melanie
Kafka
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17) We have all the time in the world - Louis
Armstrong
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20) James Bond Theme - (John Barry)
Books and Authors
1) The Complete Works Of Shakespeare
2) The Oxford English Dictionary
3) The Times Atlas of the World
4) Winston Churchill - Martin Gilbert
5) The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orcsy
6) A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
7) Where Eagles Dare - Alastair Maclean
8) Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
9) Robin Hood - Anon
10) Sherlock Holmes stories - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11) Frederik Forsythe
12) Desmond Bagley
13) Famous Five series of Books - Enid Blyton
14) Biggles series of books - Capt W E Johns
15) James Bond - Ian Flemming
16) Fairy Tales - Perraults
17) Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen
18) Fairy Tales - Afanasiev (From Russia)
19) Fairy Tales - Brothers Grimm
20) Dracula - Bram Stoker
21) Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
22) Peter Pan - J M Barrie
23) Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scot
24) Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
25) The Three Muskerteers - Alexandre Dumas
26) Lord of The Rings Trilogy - Tolkien
27) A History of The English Speaking Peoples - Winston Churchill
28) Far From The Maddening Crowd - Thomas Hardy
29) The Second World War - Winston Churchill
30) Soviet and Revolutionary Ceramics - Nina Lobanov Rostrovsky
31) Winnie The Pooh - A.A. Milne
32) Tarzen of The Apes - Edgar Rice-Burrows
33) Tarka The Otter - Henry Williamson
34) The Wind in The Willows - Kenneth Grahame
35) Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
36) Treasure Island - R.L. Stephenson
37) Beau Geste - P.C. Wren
38) Dr. Jekyl and Mr Hyde - R. L . Stephenson
39) Gullivers Travels - Jonathon Swift
40) A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
41) Vanity Fair - W.M. Thackery
42) The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer
43) A Century of Conflict - A.J.P. Taylor
44) The French Revolution - Thomas Carlisle
45) Animal Farm - George Orwell
46) Lost Splendour - Prince Youssopoff
47) - Desmond Bagley
48) Miller's Antique Price Guide
49) Miller's Collectables Price Guide
50) The Bible
Events to Watch
1) The Olympics
2) The World Cup Finals
3) The Cricket World Cup
4) The Ryder Cup
5) The Grand National
6) European Football Championships
7) The Rugby World Cup
8) The University Boat Race
9) The FA Cup Final
10) Last Night of The Proms
11) American Football - Superbowl
12) Wimbledon All England Tennis Championships
13) Badminton - All England Championships
14) State Opening of Parliament
15) Monaco Grand Prix
16) Henley Royal Regatta
17) Royal Ascot
18) Cheltenham Gold Cup week
19) Queen's Birthday Parade
20) The Queens Christmas Speech
21) Heavy Weight Boxing Championship Fights
22) The Derby
23) The BBC's Nature programmes ( such as The Big Cat Diary)
24) The BBC news programmes
25)
Individual Events seen on Television
live - since 1953
1) Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965
2) Landing on the Moon 20 July 1969
3) 11 September 2001-Trade Centre Disaster, NY.
4) Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II - 1953 ( *recorded)
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6) Fall of the Berlin Wall - 1989
7) Falklands War television coverage
8) Iranian Embassy seige in London and SAS action
9) Rolling Stones Concert in Hyde Park - July 1969 (*live)
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12) Muhammed Ali versus Sonny Listen/ +rumble in the Jungle/+The thriller in
Manila
13) Parkinson Show with Muhammad Ali / + with Emu
14) Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales - 1997
15) Marriage of Charles and Diana -
16) Beslan School Massacre -2004
17) First Iraq Gulf War television coverage
18) Assasination of JFK in Dallas (*recorded)
19) England winning the World Cup in 1966
20) Funeral of Pope Jean-Paul and election of Benedict XVI- April 2005
Imaginary Diner Party Guests
Politicians and Public figures - men
Sports stars - Men
Showbusiness/TV - Men
1) Winston
Churchill
Muhammed
Ali (boxing)
Clint Eastwood ( film actor and director
2) Prince
Charles
Jimmy
Greaves (soccer)
Peter Tchaikovsky(composer)
3) Michael Heseltine
Clive
Lloyd (cricket)
Verdi (composer)
4)
Pat
Jennings (soccer)
Sean Connery (film actor)
5)
Sevriano Ballesteros (golf) Steven Speilberg(film
director)
6) Charles
Darwin
Ian
Botham (cricket) William Shakespeare(writer)
7) Harald Macmillan
Ossie
Ardiles (soccer)
Charles Dickens (writer)
8)
Henry
Cooper (boxing)
David Attenborough(Wildlife presenter and tv
presenter)
9) Daly
Thomsen (Athletics) Professor
Robert Winston( Child Doctor and tv presenter)
10) Mikhail Gorbachov
Linford Christie (Athletics) Alastair
Cooke (Commentator on USA)
11) Peter The Great Gary
Lineker (soccer)
Ilya Repin Russian painter)
12) Henry Vlll
Frank Bruno (Boxing)
John Bly(tv antiques)
13) Prince
Andrew Lester
Piggot ( Flat Racing )
David Battie(tv antiques)
14) Quintin Hogg (Lord
Hailsham) David Black (Atheletics)
Lars Tarp ( tv Antiques )
15) Benjamin
Disreali Ray
Reardon ( Snooker)
R.L. Stephensen(writer)
16) Isaac
Newton John
Virgo (snooker)
Alastair Maclean(writer)
17)
Brunel Eric
Bristow (Darts)
Rudyard Kipling (Writer)
18) Duke of
Wellington Jimmy
Connors (Tennis)
Brian Johnstone(Cricket Commentator)
19) James
Cooke Ilie
Nastsie (Tennis)
John Arlott (Cricket commentator)
20) Lord Horatio
Nelson
Lenny Henry (Comedian and tv presenter)
21) Prince
William
Sir Peter Scott (Wildlife expert and son of Scott of the
Antartic)
22) Villy Brandt
Bram Stoker (Writer of Dracula)
23) Ghandi
Hans Christian Andersen (Writer and traveller)
24)
John Cleese(Comedian and tv presenter)
25)
Michael Palin (Comedian and travel presenter)
Bill Frindell (cricket commentator/statistician)
John Simpson - BBC News reporter
Peter Carl Faberge
Historical Ladies Showbusiness / Sports Ladies/business Writers -ladies - Artists etc
1) Elizabeth
l
Julie Christie
Beatrix Potter
2) Elizabeth
ll
Audrey Hepburn
Enid Blyton
3) Catherine The
Great
Stevie Nicks - Singer Fleetwood Mac
Jane Austin
4) Marie Dagmar Fedorovna
Grace Kelly
Mary Shelley
5) Natalia Danko-(porcelain artist/sculptur )
Dame
Kelly Holmes
Agatha Christie
6)
Twiggy J.K.
Rowling
7)
Anita Roddick
8) Florence
Nightingale
Billie Jean King
Anna Akmotova
9) Mary Queen of
Scots
Sandra Bullock
10)
Elkie Brooks
11) Sarah Fergerson - Duchess of
York
Jenny Lind
12)
Dame Margot Fonteyn
13)
Dame Vera Lynn
14)
Dame Margaret Rutherford
15)
Cybil Shepherd
16) Melanie
Kafka
17)
Bridget Bardot
18)
Raquel Welch
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20) Madeleine
Albright
Sporting Teams
Soccer
1) Tottenham Hotspurs -
English Soccer
2) Preston - English Soccer
3) Rangers - Scotish Soccer
4) Hearts - Scotish Soccer
5) Copenhagen - Danish soccer
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(teams below are based on Countries and
are not in any particular order)
6) Gothenborg - Swedish soccer
7) Rosenborg - Norwegian soccer
8) Zenith, St. Petersburg - Russian soccer
9) Hamburg - German soccer
10) Cologne - German soccer
11) Stuttgart - German soccer
12) Monaco - French soccer
13) A.C Milan - Italian soccer
14) Naples - Italian soccer
15) Inter Milan - Italian soccer
16) Barcelona - Spanish soccer
17) Hereford United - English soccer
18) Bedford Town - English soccer
19) Yeovil Town - English soccer
20) Santos - Brazilian Soccer
21) Burnley - English soccer
22) Sporting Lisborn - Portuguese soccer
23) Dynamo Kiev - Ukrainian soccer
24) Real Madrid - Spanish soccer
25) Marseille - French soccer
26) PSV Eindhoven- Dutch soccer
27) Ajax Amsterdam - Dutch soccer
28) Rapid Vienna - Austrian soccer
29) Standard Liege - Belgium soccer
30) Galatassery - Turkish soccer
31) Dynamo Bucarest - Rumanian soccer
32) Benfica - Portuguese Soccer
Lancashire Cricket Club - Cricket
Bedford Rugby Club - Rugby Union
Cambridge University - University Boat Race - rowing
'Desert Island Discs'
10 of the best of each
Books
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Churchill - A Life .- by Sir Martin Gilbert
Winnie The Pooh - by A.A. Milne/E.H. Shepherd ill.
Robin Hood - Anon.
Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm
A History of The English Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill
Lord of The Rings (Trilogy)
The Times World Atlas
Sherlock Holmes Stories - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Scarlet Pimpernel - By Baroness Orczy
+ The Oxford English Dictionary
+ The Bible