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Ed’s
Desert Island Disks:
 | Steve
Harley & Cockney Rebel - Come Up and See Me (Make Me Smile) |
| Madness
- Night Boat to Cairo |
| REM
- The One I Love |
| Mozart
- Rondo Allegro Vivace, Horn Concerto |
| Roy
Orbison - Distant Drums |
| Eddie
Cochran - Three Steps to Heaven |
| Nat
King Cole - Nature Boy |
| Flanders
and Swann - The Gas Man Cometh |
| The
Bonzo Dog Band - I’m the Urban Spaceman |
Top
Films:
| Mr.
Smith Goes to Washington |
| Zulu |
| Michael
Collins |
| Dead
Poets Society |
| Moulin
Rouge |
| Lord of the Rings…
the whole trilogy I'm afraid |
Favourite
books:
| Dear
Me, autobiography of Peter Ustinov |
| Did
you wait up for Portillo, Brian Cathcart's account of the on-the-night
coverage of the 1997 General Election |
| Lord
of the Rings, J R R Tolkien |
| Big
Cyril, autobiography of Cyril Smith |
| The
Saxon Shore, edited by Valerie Maxfield |
| Any
of the Times Guides to the General Election |
| I
Claudius and Claudius the God, Robert Graves |
Favourite
poets/poems:
| Adrian
Mitchell - Nostalgia - Now Threepence Off |
| John
Clare - I am |
| Stevie
Smith - Not waving but drowing |
| Tom
Paulin - The Invasion Handbook (collection) |
| Lord
Alfred Tennyson - Crossing the Bar |
| Robert
Bloomfield - To my old oak table |
| Philip
Larkin - This be the verse |
| Seamus
Heaney - Death of a naturalist |
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