Channel 4 News Presenter Jon Snow

PAGE 86 C M Y K DAILY MAIL WeeKEND ‘I paint a watercolour picture almost everywhere I go – the beauty is that you can’t guarantee what will happen’ DEFINITE a barbecue on the beach. Then we’d find some hammocks and sleep under a full moon to the sound of the waves. The happiest moment you will cherish forever… Nothing beats the births of my daughters [Leila, 32, and Freya, 29, ARTICLE from his previous relationship], but get- We ask a celebrity a set of devilishly ting the BAFTA Fellowship last year is as good as it gets in my profession. It’s probing questions – and only accept amazing to get that sort of acclamation from your peers – and still be alive! THE definitive answer. This week The saddest time that shook your world… 9/11. I’ve since covered it’s Channel 4 News’s Jon Snow Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria and its scar is constantly visible. I think every- The prized possession you value above The unlikely interest that body has been affected by that day. all others… My Condor bicycle, which engages your curiosity… I’ve had for six years. They cost around Painting in watercolours. I The unfulfilled ambition that contin- £2,000, but I cycle to work every day so it paint one almost every- ues to haunt you… To render the New paid for itself within a year. where I go. The beauty is Horizon Youth Centre charity for you can’t guarantee what The figure from his- The event that altered the course of homeless young people, which I have The biggest regret you wish you could will happen, so they con- tory for whom you’d most your life and character… Doing a year’s chaired for 30 years, redundant. amend… Letting my music and singing stantly surprise you. like to buy a pie and a pint… voluntary work as a teacher in Uganda slip. I was a chorister as a child and used The philosophy that underpins your William Wilberforce, who abol- when I was 18. I’d never been on a plane to be quite good on the piano and violin. life… Treat people well and they will The pet hate that makes ished slavery in the British Empire. or left England. The experience trans- treat you well in return. The temptation you wish you could your hackles rise... Hatred of I’d ask him how he did it. formed me from a selfish, privileged resist… Fresh bread, croissants, cinna- those who are perceived as different. boy into someone with a conscience. The order of service at your funeral… The piece of wisdom that you would mon swirls, pains aux raisins – they’re so It must be very short because I don’t The film you can watch time and time pass on to a child… Always look for The song that means most to you… fattening, but so irresistibly delicious. want to inflict any bother on those who again… Doctor Zhivago, which I the funny side. I manage to laugh a lot, I Believe I Can Fly by R Kelly – it’s have to get rid of me. I believe that once The book that holds an ever- saw as a teenager. The beautiful even in difficult times – in every cloud aspirational, absurd and speaks of more you’re dead, you’re gone, so none of the lasting resonance… Team Of Julie Christie, the great Omar there’s a funny lining! self-belief than I possess. funeral stuff really matters. Rivals: The Political Genius Of Sharif, the Russian steppes, the The treasured item you lost and wish Abraham Lincoln by Doris snow... wonderful. The way you would spend your fantasy The way you want to be remembered… you could have again… The view of Kearns Goodwin. It’s an account 24 hours, with no travel restrictions… He did his best. Balcombe Viaduct from my childhood The day would begin with my wife Pre- of how he persuaded men who The person who has influenced P My cousin Peter bedroom in Ardingly, West Sussex. Its cious on the island of Iona off the west The Plug… Channel 4 News is serious, HOTO hated him to work with him. you most… Snow is a great journalist 37 arches were the horizon of my world comic and informs in its own unique coast of Scotland, where I’d have break- G The priority activity if you – I try to emulate him. and a source of wonderment. fast at the Argyll Hotel. I have porridge way. It belongs to us all, but costs RAPHS: were the Invisible Man for a nothing, and is worth preserving. every day with fresh fruit, nuts and E The unending quest The poem that touches your soul… V day… I’d spend a day with honey, followed by coffee. I’d then set- Watch it Monday-Friday at 7pm. n en I Barack Obama to find out that drives you on… JK Rowling’s remarkable Com- As told to Rob McGibbon ng tle down to paint a watercolour of the STA what he really believes. I The search for the truth. mencement Address to Harvard Uni- rocky outcrops and the rolling nd versity students on 5 June 2008 is I’ll keep asking questions AR think he’s actually much sea. Later we’d head to Cape D until I find it, but on a lyrical and highly emotive – it stirs / more radical than he’s E Cod in the USA for a lunch of Y my heart as much as any poem and E been as President. scale from one to ten I VI oysters and lobster. After that ne haven’t even got to one! inspires me to do better. I’d swim in one of the spell- , SHUTT The crime you would com- The misapprehension about yourself binding glacial kettle ponds E Right: Julie Christie mit knowing you could you wish you could erase… That I’m there. We’d spend the rest of RSTOC in Doctor Zhivago. get away with it… I’d the Game Of Thrones character played the day on one of the heav- K Above right: , R steal the minute hand by Kit Harington. The epithet connec- enly islands off Mozam- E watercolour paints. X, from Big Ben just for ted to him – ‘You know nothing, Jon bique, diving and snorkel- ge Far right: the Scottish TTY island of Iona the fun of it. Snow’ – follows me everywhere. ling. At sundown we’d have NEXT WEEK PS... l Behind the scenes on the Helen Mirren goes back to Hollywood’s golden age in Trumbo – in BBC’s hard-hitting new adoption l cinemas Friday. Neil Pearson stars in comedy Hand To God at drama One Child Tuck into our tasty new series on brilliant London’s Vaudeville Theatre, also from Friday, and Elton John’s breakfasts l Monty Don says hallelujah for hyacinths new album Wonderful Crazy Night is out on the same day l PLUS Britain’s best TV guide PLEASE RECYCLE Our newspapers, magazines DAILY MAIL WEEKEND IS PUBLISHed BY ASSOCIATed NewSPAPERS LTD. PRINTed BY THE POLESTAR GROUP. RegISTERed AS A newSPAPER AT THE POST OFFICE. © ASSOCIATed NewSPAPERS LIMITed 2016. 86 weekend and polythene wrapping are 100% recyclable. 30 JANUarY.

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