Simon Bird
English actor and comedian
Candle In The Wind.
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Mozart’s clarinet concerto from the Out Of Africa soundtrack.
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Adrian Edmondson
English actor, comedian, musician and writer
Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Whenever Rik and I got stuck writing a script, we would put this on and the world would immediately seem to be a more stupidly brilliant place again.
Malorie Blackman
British writer
What A Wonderful World, by Louis Armstrong.
Anna Friel
English actress
Weird Fishes by Radiohead.
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The double marathon on the last day of my 27 marathons in 27 days.
Nelson Mandela, because I didn’t do enough to stop apartheid. Now I have hopefully made amends.
Living in Bangor, County Down, because my mum was still alive. She died when I was six.
With a blue plaque.
The UK voting for us to stay in Europe on 23 June.
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