Gender	Male
Location	Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom
Introduction	Co-host of The Blah Blah Blah Show; poet, performer and novelist; critic and broadcaster; founder of The Undead Poets Society
Interests	Poetry, Literature, Theatre, Travel, Cinema, Art, Music
Favorite movies	Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, Badlands, The Wicker Man, Straw Dogs, The Godfather, Naked, The Birds, Spartacus, Being John Malkovitch
Favorite music	Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, The Smiths, Miles Davis, Nick Cave, The Fall, Americana, Post-Punk, Electronica, Psychedelia
Favorite books	Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Michel Hoellebecq, John Updike, Milan Kundera, Douglas Coupland, Bruce Chatwin, William Dalrymple, John Fowles, Laurie Lee, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens William Shakespeare, Ted Hughes, Glyn Maxwell, Weldon Kees, Philip Larkin, John Berryman, W.B.Yeats, Lois MacNeice, Seamus Heaney, Wilfred Owen, Les Murray, Luke Kennard

Which is easier to make a model airplane out of and why: a banana peel or a wet sock?

A lectern