Scott Gronmark
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Blissfully retired |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I’m half-Norwegian, half-Scots. I lived in Norway till I was six – it’s been London since then. I have a degree in Philosophy from Cambridge. I worked in publishing for a bit, then became a full-time novelist for seven years, with nine titles published. I worked for the BBC for 18 years, including stints as a TV News producer, politics producer, editor of live political programmes, BBC Online Homepage editor, and Head of Interactive TV . I left the BBC nine years ago to set up my own new media consultancy, and, after helping launch the BBC Persian and BBC Arabic TV channels, I retired for good three years ago. I’m a right-wing Conservative who worries about the way we’re ruled by a liberal-left nomenklatura which seems more interested in telling us what to think than doing what we ask of it. I started this blog three years ago because I enjoy writing, and to let off steam. It keeps me in touch with friends – two of my regular commenters turned out to be chums I hadn’t seen for 40 years. I live a modest life in a nice part of West London with my wife and teenage son. |
| Interests | Art, Music, Poetry, Books, Nature, Conservative Politics, Right-wing Politics, Religion, Anglicanism, Television, Guitar, Basset Hounds, Cornwall, Psychotherapy, Jung, Hayek, Libertarianism |
| Favorite Movies | The Third Man, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, I Know Where I'm Going, The Lives of Others, Double Indemnity, Night of the Hunter, The Seveth Seal, La Belle et La Bête, Les Enfants du Paradis, The Exorcist, Sweet Smell of Success, Sunset Boulevard, A Canterbury Tale, The Lady Vanishes, The 39 Steps, This Happy Breed, Zulu, From Russia With Love, I'm All Right Jack, The Fallen idol, The Ladykillers, Dracula, Invasion of the Body-Snatchers, The Thing, Nuts in May. Get Carter, Withnail & I, This Is Spinal Tap, Airplane, Naked Gun, Idiocracy, Toy Story 3, Up, Psycho, Nosferatu, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Young Frankenstein, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Night of the Hunter, It Happened One Night, Bad Day at Black Rock, The Bourne Trilogy, Violent Cop, Ivan the Terrible, Andrei Rublev, It Happened One Night, A Clockwork Orange, The Last Boy Scout |
| Favorite Music | Elvis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Burnette, Eddie Cochran, Charlie Feathers, Johnny Horton, Gene Vincent, Danny Gatton, Flamin' Groovies, Gillian Welch, Hank Williams Sr, Hank C. Burnette, Grady Martin, James Burton, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, John Fogerty, Duane Eddy, Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, Marty Stuart, Slim Harpo, Steve Miller, Tony Joe White, The Byrds, The Stones, The Beach Boys, Blind Willie McTell, The Band, Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, Mozart, Vaughan Williams, Delius, Ravel, Rockabilly, Rock and Roll, Rhythm and Blues, Soul, Hillbilly Boogie, Hot Country, Surf, British Invasion, Classical |
| Favorite Books | A Criminal History of Mankind by Colin Wilson, War and Peace by Tolstoy, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek, The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad, The Ghost of the Machine by Isabel Paterson, Lost Horizon by James Hilton, Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley, The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby, A History of the Modern World by Paul Johnson, Memories Dreams, Reflections by Jung, The First Circle by Solzhenitsyn, The Open Society & its Enemies by Karl Popper, The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton, Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada, The Great Terror by Robert Conquest, Stoner by John Williams, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, Wueen's Gambit by Walter Tevis, The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning, Any Human Heart by William Boyd, Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gariel Garcia Marquez, The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell, Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis |