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Chris Emery Names. My middle names are James Frederick, after my paternal and maternal grandfathers — James died the year I was born, so I’ve never really known about my Irish ancestor, but have considered taking Irish nationality. My confirmation name was Michael, which I used happily when I was a Roman Catholic. More than [...]

Tamar Yoseloff

My favourite film is Barry Lyndon. Some critics say that Ryan O’Neal’s performance is wooden, but his character is meant to be without emotion or remorse. Marisa Berenson stepped out of a Gainsborough painting; I like that her theme tune is Shubert’s Piano Trio in E Flat. At [...]

David Rose

Likes Marmite but not ginger. Was three-times winner of the Slough Arts Festival Trophy. (Slough Arts Festival is not an oxymoron.) Fastest time for a 10-mile time trial: 30 min. 28 secs. Has read The Magic Mountain three times, The Man Without Qualities twice, Proust never. Most frightening phrase [...]

John McCullough

I have a 1st Dan black belt in karate and used to teach it in Watford. As a teenager, my whole life was tournament freefighting, going to gradings and scrubbing my white gi clean. (And then I discovered beer — no roundhouse kicks since 1997 …). I’m a [...]