ACK PACE

Jeremy Paxman

What newspapers do you Do you really need your car? I take? All the broadsheets, sold it years ago. Spectator, London Review Of Books, Granta, Index On Which charity do you support? Censorship, The Economist. Oxfam, Notting Hill Housing Trust, Action Aid and the What foreign languages do you Samaritans. speak? French and Spanish poorly. What is your favourite adverti­ sement? Carling Black Label What is your all-time favourite - the surfer ad. film? Chinatown. What are you doing for When do you listen to music? the environment? The usual When travelling and occas­ things, inadequately. ionally when not. What part of this life would you When was the last time you recycle into the next? None. I prayed? Last week. would miss the rest of the old, or I would adulterate the What was your first thought new. this morning? I've overslept. Who do you respect? Jonathan What is the most common col­ Swift, for having a sense of our in your wardrobe? Blue, it proportion. goes with anything. What do you no longer believe What is your favourite meeting in? Mature reflection. place? The Walmer Castle in Wll for friends. The Gay What would you die for? Love, Hussar restaurant in Wl for faith or hope. business. What do you now own that you What is your worst piece of had never dreamt of owning? architecture? Almost any Arn- A life-sized imitation of dale Centre and the redevel­ Tutankhamun with exagge­ oped centres of those cities rated ears. which succumbed to the 1960s developers. Jeremy Paxman was born in Yorkshire in What is the most amount of money you've spent on an item Who do you reveal your secrets 1950. He was educated in Worcestershire of clothing? £250 on a suit. to? My girlfriend, but infre­ and then attended Cambridge University, quently. where he edited the university's What hi-tech device scares you? None scare me, but What makes you feel secure? A newspaper. He has worked as an plenty make me feel inade­ warm bed on a cold night. award-winning reporter for BBC television quate. How regularly do you consult since 1977 on various programmes, How much time do you spend your horoscope? About once a including Panorama and Breakfast Time, each day on the phone? Hours. month, sceptically. and is now a presenter of BBC2's Under what circumstances What was the first lesson you . His second book, Friends In would you support censorship? learnt in life? You shouldn't High Places, was published in September To save life. feed worms to baby brothers. and was based upon his research of the Complete this sentence: If I What is your earliest memory? British establishment. He lives in London. were dictator for a day... I'd The night of the birth of my give anarcho-minimalism a younger brother. Which is your city of the 90s? eat less, but it shows more. go. Prague. What is your greatest regret? What physical exercise do you How much more do you want Not being musical. Where do you wish you were do? Cycling, walking and to achieve? Lots, out I've living? Exmoor, Sutherland or swimming. never had a plan, so I can't be You're driving through a hot, Radnorshire, where I could specific. desolate expanse. What's play­ farm sheep. Who was/is the greatest intel­ ing on the stereo? The Sanctus lectual influence on your life? What does being a European from Gounod's Mass for St How has your diet changed in George Sayer, my English mean to you? Being close to Celia. the past ten years? I seem to teacher at school. history.

56 MARXISM TODAY JANUARY 1991