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I’ve driven at least a dozen tanks and I’m fascinated by guns, jets, missiles and warships – though I know they cause carnage’
the back streets of Rome watching the definite entertainers, followed by pasta and red wine for dinner. The day would end with the sunset at Avebury Stone Circle in Wiltshire, a pint of local ale, and bed at home in west London. article The happiest moment you will cherish forever... The last day of my six-day, We ask a celebrity a set of devilishly 87-mile walk on The Ridgeway Trail to Avebury last summer. I did it with fam- probing questions – and only accept ily and friends for my 50th birthday and THE definitive answer. This week to raise money for Cancer Research. The saddest time that shook your it’s the comedian Bill Bailey world... My mum, Madryn, passing away in 2005 from bowel cancer. Mum The prized possession you value above The film you can watch time was such a character. I was with her all others... A leather documents case my and time again... The when she died and it was surreal. father Christopher gave me when I was Night Of The Hunter, The unfulfilled ambition that continues six. I kept my piano music in it and it with Robert Mitchum. It’s to haunt you... To write a musical. I have stayed with me. My son Dax, 12, uses it. terrifying and brilliant. a story and six songs already written. Amazon for not paying enough tax. The biggest regret you wish you could The person who has influ- The song that means most to you... The philosophy that underpins your amend... Not pursuing academia fur- enced you most... My Once In A Lifetime by Talking Heads. life... To never give up. ther. After my A-levels I was in too music teacher Lynda I first heard it at 15 and it became the The order of service at your funeral... It much of a hurry to get out in the world. Phipps. She was no-non- party song for me and my mates. will be in a chapel by the sea and begin The temptation you wish you could sense and full of life. She taught me far wore doing stand-up in the mid-1990s. The way you would spend your fantasy more than music – she gave me belief in with Once In A Lifetime, followed by a resist... Beer. I’ve tried to give up, but One of the heels fell off, so I abandoned 24 hours, with no travel restrictions... myself. Sadly, she died 10 years ago. reading of WB Yeats’ The Indian To there are too many great new breweries. them in a dressing room in Edinburgh. I’d begin the day watching the sun His Love. Then I want Jerusalem and The figure from history for whom you’d The book that holds an everlasting reso- They’d be a nice memento. come up at Stonehenge and feeling Adlestrop before ending with Song To most like to buy a pie and a pint... Sulei- nance... The unending quest that drives you the stones. I’d have breakfast on the The Siren by This Mortal Coil. I Vineland, Thomas Pynchon’s man the Magnificent. He ruled the novel about US radicals from the 1960s. on... To keep improving at stand-up. back of a truck driving through wouldn’t mind my body being set out to Ottoman Empire in the 16th century Namibia. Just a flask of coffee and a sea in a Viking longship and burnt! The priority activity if you were the and kept order in the Islamic world. I’d The poem that touches your soul... Croix de Savoie [a brioche-like pas- The way you want to be remembered... Invisible Man for a day... I’d stand on show him the chaos today and ask his Adlestrop by Edward Thomas. He try]. Then I’d have a walk along the stage at a Rolling Stones con- advice. writes of an English rural paradise Skeleton Coast and sit on the beach With a smile will do. cert and watch Mick Jagger The piece of wisdom you would pass before WWI. I carry a book of his taking photos of the lions. I’d meet my The Plug... Bill Bailey’s Limboland is Pho t
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