Jason Byrne
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The James Bond theme tune Nobody Does It Better.
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None: I do not want a funeral.
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Gemma Whelan
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I want people to really, really cry so The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams.
Paul Weller
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Theme From A Summer Place, by Percy Faith.
Tom Kerridge
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Pavarotti’s Nessun Dorma. I’m a big sports fan and Italia 90 was such a massive part of my life when I’d just turned 17. That tune just builds and builds. I can imagine a massive coffin disappearing down while he’s singing. What better way to go?
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If only I could drive. I have tried learning. I almost demolished James Ivory’s house in America. That was scary; I never drove again.
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Unfinished work and caffeine.
A 19th-century ebony and cane chair from the Raj period.
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