bio

Born in Griffithstown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffithstown March 1967, raised in Blackwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwood,_Caerphilly and Bassaleg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassaleg, South Wales, schooled in Taunton Somerset, London has been home since 1987

Married to Alli, Features and TV Editor for Inside Soap magazine

Travel, Sport, Reading, Music, Technology, TV and Film, Health and Fitness, Food and Drink, Science, History

Movies - Caddyshack, The Shining, Bad Day at Black Rock, American Beauty, Aliens, Heartbreak Ridge, Capricorn One, California Suite, This is Spinal Tap (IMDb scores this out of 11), Rocky IV, The Ipcress File, Goodfellas

Food - Italian, Japanese, French, home-cooking

Drink - Very Dry Martini with Olives, Negroni, Red Wine, Prairie Oyster, good Rum and Tequila

Places - New York, Paris, Greece, Turkey, Southern Spain, South of France, Hong Kong, Outer Space

TV - Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, King of Queens, Mad Men, Succession, Only Connect, Grand Slam

Radio - Gilles Peterson, Robbie Vincent, Tommy Vance, Worldwide FM https://worldwidefm.net/

Podcasts:

Rich Roll: https://open.spotify.com/show/2TGszFKJEbQuEXrWduK63l?si=tZAJEz6VRVWTHs0pZQf64g

Tim Ferriss: https://open.spotify.com/show/5qSUyCrk9KR69lEiXbjwXM?si=PapJwgMHTgKmEeWcRh2XSQ

The Missing Cryptoqueen: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p07nkd84

HBR Ideacast:  

https://open.spotify.com/show/4gtSBBxIAE142ApX6LqsvN?si=UxR7DotkTm6vrEfzfRIF8g

Dr Rangan Chatterjee: 

https://open.spotify.com/show/6NyPQfcSR9nj0DPDr2ixrK?si=MVjo2atRQDqA0agdEKQJSA

13 Minutes to The Moon https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/w13xttx2

Tim Harford, More or Less https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b006qshd

Apps - Hargreaves Lansdown, Wealthify, Audible, Coursera, Peak, BBC 

Teams

Football - Liverpool and Newport County

Rugby - Wales and Gwent Dragons

Newspapers - Sunday Times, New York Times, South China Morning Post

Magazines - Wired, New Scientist, Inside Soap (of course) https://www.insidesoap.co.uk/