Richard Farthing

1 What's the best thing about your job? Avoidance of 9-5

2 And the worst? Fake people who pretend they are in the music business when they are not.

3 What is your favourite book? Cecil Beaton Diaries 1960s

4 Do you have an unfulfilled ambition? Write a successful screenplay

5 Choose five words to describe yourself. Always tried my best

6 What would you do if you won the lottery? Liberate the world from morons!

7 When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? Musician

8 Who was your childhood hero? John Lennon/Paul McCartney/Bob Dylan

9 What is your most treasured possession, excluding family? Not telling!

10 What is your greatest extravagance? Travel/Savile Row shirts

11 If you were invisible, where would you go first, and why?
Director General of the BBC's Office - see how decisions are made

12 Choose four ideal dinner guests, dead or alive.
Cary Grant,Orson Welles, Grace Kelly, Charles Wheeler (from BBC)

13 If you could be a famous person for a day, who would it be and why?
Bob Dylan - interesting to see how people react to celebrity on that elevated level.

14 What is your favourite food? Casserole

15 Favourite drink? Cranberry juice

16 Favourite TV character? Frank Furillo from Hill Street Blues

17 Favourite film? Five Easy Pieces (Jack Nicholson)

18 Who would you least like to be stuck in a lift with? Robert Mugabe

19 What was the first record you ever bought? The Monkees Greatest Hits

20 What are your pet hates? TV executives who assume the public are morons

21 If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? Longer legs to run faster

22 What do you hate spending money on? Repairs

23 Which three items would you take to a desert island? Good pair of trousers and a hammock

24 Happiness is...? Realising we have no control of life/relaxed attitude to things

25 What is your most amusing or embarrassing moment?
Too many to mention..when I have a Norman Wisdom moment!