Jessica Hynes
British actress and writer
Paprika Plains by Joni Mitchell.
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Jeff Buckley's rendition of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.
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Kathleen Turner
American actress
One of my daughter's. She wrote a song for me called Strong Like You, and she played it at the opening of my last play, Mother Courage. Every mother there cried.
Alan Titchmarsh
Gardener and broadcaster
Eric Idle’s Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. That’s me, really.
Christopher Eccleston
English actor
Hot Legs by Rod Stewart: I’m going to be cremated.
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Climbing in Tibet, surfing in Australia and a moment ago by a courgette cutter as I dithered over one of these questions.
Picking my nose.
That fear becomes too great.
To fail better next time.
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