Is the creator of Inspector Morse, who appeared at the Plowright Theatre on
10 January 2009.
My all time favourite five reads are...
- The collected poems of A.E. Housman
- Decline and fall of the Roman empire.
- Bleak House - Charles Dickens
- Short stories of Kipling
- Hardy's 'Emma' poems (1913)
My favourite word is...
Paradise
(Find the meaning in the Oxford English Dictionary)
My favourite book from my childhood was...
I never got past The Dandy.
The last thing I read before answering these questions was...
My wife's shopping list (carrots, chicken-thighs, etc)
My favourite place to read would be...
Still is - in bed on a coldish night.
If I could only read one last thing in my life it would be...
The 43 translation into Latin verse of Gray's 'Elegy' (ed. Donald Gibson).