• Banyard, Kat - The Equality Illusion
• Barnes, Julian - The Sense of an Ending
• Bell, Martin - For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Betjeman, John (Editor) - Altar & Pew
• Brigstocke, Marcus - God Collar
• Bryson, Bill - At Home
• Dasgupta, Partha - Economics: A Very Short Introduction
• Dunn, Jane - Elizabeth & Mary
• Faukes, Sebastian - Birdsong
• Faukes, Sebastian - Charlotte Gray
• Fry, Stephen - The Ode Less Travelled
• Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
• Gombrich, E H - A Little History of the World
• Gowans, John - There's a boy here...
• Hitchens, Christopher - God is Not Great
• Homer - The Odyssey
• Hosseini, Khaled - A Thousand Splendid Suns
• Ishiguro, Kazuo - Nocturnes

• Arthur C Clarke
• Billy Bragg
• Desmond Tutu
• Graham Kendrick
• Humphrey Lyttelton
• James Galway
• Jimmy Savile
• John Prescott
• Martin Brundle

I've been less than a metre away from the Queen, but we didn't speak!

Probably more to follow as I remember or meet them!

• Ben Goldacre
• Beverley Knight
• Deborah Meadon
• Deborah Orr (social and political commentator)
• Dreda Say Mitchell (author)
• Gabby Roslin
• John Prescott (former Deputy Prime Minister)
• Maggie Philbin
• Nicky Campbell
• Omid Djalili
• Paul Ross
• Rachel Reeves MP (Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury)
• Richard Madeley
• Russell Watson (singer)
• Sarah Millican (she called me 'pet')
• Stephen Nolan (on BBC Radio 5 Live)
• Suzi Perry
• Tom Holland (author and historian)

• 50 Words for Snow - Kate Bush
• A Creature I Don't Know - Laura Marling
• Biophilia - Björk (best of the rest)
• Ceremonials - Florence + The Machine (2nd)
• Dive - Tycho
• Ghost On The Canvas - Glen Campbell (3rd)
• Let England Shake - PJ Harvey
• Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
• Paper Airplane - Alison Krauss & Union Station
• The King Of Limbs - Radiohead (1st)

Listed in alphabetical order, top 3 and best of the rest in brackets.

• 11:14 (2003)
• 127 Hours (2010)
• Arrietty (2010)
• Brazil (1985)
• Children of Men (2006)
• Cinema Paradiso (1988)
• City of God (2002)
• Coriolanus (2011)
• Das Boot (1981)
• Edward Scissorhands (1990)
• Gladiator (2000)
• Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
• Hot Fuzz (2007)
• House of Flying Daggers (2004)
• Hugo (2011)
• Inglourious Basterds (2009)
• Jésus de Montréal (1989)
• Kung Fu Panda (2008)
• Leon (1994)
• Melancholia (2011)
• My Neighbour Totoro (1988)

• 12 Angry Men (1957)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• 24 Hour Party People (2002)
• A Beautiful Mind (2001)
• A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
• A Hard Day's Night (1964)
• Alien (1979)
• Amelie (2001)
• Becket (1964)
• Black Swan (2010)
• Blade Runner (Ridley Scott's Final Cut 1982/2007)
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
• Brief Encounter (1945)
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
• Casablanca (1942)
• Casino Royale (2006)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• Control (2007)
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)