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‘I would forcibly extract the tonsils of anyone who coughs during a classical music concert!’
The happiest moment you will cherish definite forever… The first time each of my four grandchildren [from his three grown-up sons] called me Grandad. The saddest time that shook your world… Watching my wife Bonnie article suffer from dementia. Nula and I both We ask a celebrity a set of devilishly have spouses in end-of-life care with dementia. They have no recognition, probing questions – and only accept no bodily control, no dignity left, yet the priority is to keep them alive. We THE definitive answer. This week are kinder to animals. The Bonnie I remember no longer exists. it’s broadcaster John Suchet’s turn The unfulfilled ambition that contin- ues to haunt you… To be able to play The prized possession you value above The priority activity if you were the any of Beethoven’s piano sonatas. all others… My trombone. My mum Joan Invisible Man for a day… I’d fix every bought it for me when I formed a school faulty London Underground signal and The philosophy that underpins your jazz band aged 17. I still play it – badly. train so there’s no disruption for a day. life… Live every day as if you will not see tomorrow. One day you won’t. The biggest regret you wish you could The pet hate that makes your hackles The unlikely Communism. I presented the ITN amend… Turning down the chance of a rise... Smoking. Not just The order of service at your funeral… interest that news from the Brandenburg Gate posting to Congo by Reuters when I was for what it does to the No funeral service, no mention of a engages your days after the Berlin Wall came down 26. My then wife, Moya, was pregnant smoker, but for what it deity, nothing religious. curiosity… Snooker. in 1989; I’d watched it go up when I and I needed to stay in London. does to me if I get any- My dad Jack was a was still at school in 1961. The way you want to be remembered… where near them. My voice The temptation you wish you could gynaecologist who Simply as a good broadcaster. is my livelihood and smok- The crime you would commit knowing resist… Brazil nut chocolate. As a kid I looked after world ing destroys it. you could get away with it… I’d forcibly The Plug… John Suchet presents the saw my dad eating some, pleaded for a champion Joe Davis’s extract the tonsils of anybody who flagship morning show on Classic FM, piece, and it changed my life! No meal The film you can watch time and time wife. He gave us a table coughs during a classical music concert. weekdays from 9am to 1pm, available seems complete without it. again… Cinema Paradiso. The scene when I was 14, and I was hooked. on 100-102 FM, on the Classic FM app where the little boy, now a famous The song that means most to you… The book that holds an everlasting The treasured item you lost and wish and at www.classicfm.com. n film director, returns to his hometown Unforgettable by Nat King Cole. I was resonance… The Grapes Of Wrath by you could have again… A volume of As told to Rob McGibbon and looks towards the cinema where playing it in my room as a teenager when John Steinbeck. What Rose of Sharon short stories about Sherlock Holmes, a he befriended the projectionist brought Mum came in with tears in her eyes and does on the last page still moves me to present when I was in hospital after tears down my cheeks. told me her great secret. It stays a secret. tears. I won’t give away knocking myself out at school. One
what she does, but The person who has influenced you The way you would spend your fantasy P
day it just wasn’t there any more. hoto it’s a remarkable most… My grandad, James Jarché, a 24 hours, with no travel restrictions...
The unending quest that drives you g act of compassion. press photographer. I listened After a lie-in (my days normally start m chris raphs: on… To get just one radio link to come enthralled as a child as he talked of his at 5.30am to present Classic FM) I’d out as I want it to! They’re never quite as Left: Nat King adventures. I’m sure that’s where I first have a two-hour brunch, made by my good as they were in my head. Cole. Above got the urge to travel to far-flung places. partner Nula, at our Docklands flat. right: snooker ca
We’d go to Vienna for lunch at Zum nd balls. Far The poem that touches your soul… I’ve
The figure from history for whom you’d r right: Cinema never got poetry. Kipling’s If is probably Schwarzen Kameel, where Mozart ew
most like to buy a pie and a pint… /ca Paradiso the closest I’ve come to liking a poem, and Beethoven ate, and then onto our Beethoven. I’d ask, ‘Who was the woman me
but I’d still probably prune a few lines. hideaway hotel in the Bavarian Alps pr ra we call the Immortal Beloved, the only for a steam bath and massage. We’d e
woman who ever returned your love?’ ala ss, The misapprehension about yourself see Beethoven’s Fidelio at the Sydney It’s the greatest mystery of his life. That I’m you wish you could erase… Opera House, followed by dinner in m
‘such a nice guy’. Really? You should y, r allstar, The piece of wisdom you would pass Saint-Paul de Vence, with views of see me when I get angry! on to a child… Blow your own trum- the French Alps and the Med. We’d pet – because no one else is going to The event that altered the course of end the day watching the sun go e
blow it for you. your life and character… The fall of down on the Kerala coast in India. x Next week PS... l Discover charming new Brit-flick Pride, starring Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton, is in CBeebies series The Furchester cinemas Friday. Cillian Murphy is at the National Theatre in Hotel, a British cross between Sesame Street and Fawlty Towers Ballyturk, previewing from Thursday. And Smokey Robinson’s l Janet Street-Porter offers up her taste of Britain l PLUS Britain’s album Smokey & Friends, featuring Elton John, is out Monday. best TV listings guide
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