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 Name: Ben
Atkinson
Lives: Lincoln,
UK. Currently based in Minnesota, USA.
Religion: Methodist
Political Viewpoint:
Liberal Democratic
Favourite Places: Anglesea, Nashville,
San Francisco, Devon.
Favourite music: Cat
Stevens, Brad Paisley, Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond, Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Taylor
Swift, Eric Church, Jeffery Foucault, Frank Sinatra, Michael Buble,
Chris Rea, The Police, Lady Antebellum, Sammy Davis Jr, Elvis Presley,
Jerry Reed, and lots and lots of other great stuff.
Most amazing: Work
experience with the BBC.
Felt most proud: When
my Dad first turned to me in the car and told me I'd make a good radio
presenter.
Stops me in my tracks: All
the many positive comments I have received from members of the public,
people I don't even know about my books.
Great
Radio Project: Involvement in 103 DEC, a local East
Midlands radio station's all day broadcast supporting the Disaster
Emergency Committee's East Africa Crisis Appeal. See pic above.
Would like to meet: Winston
Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Frank Sinatra,
Robert Lindsey, Taylor Swift, Cat Stevens, Dolly Parton, Brad Paisley,
Nick Park, Peter Sallis, John Lasseter, Walt Disney, Bill Gates, Geroge
Orwell.
My hero: Cat
Stevens (Yusuf Islam), an inspirational voice for peace around the
world and still one of Britain's greatest singer/songwriters.
Favourite movies: The
Boat That Rocked, Castaway, Music and Lyrics, It's Kind Of A Funny
Story, The Sword In The Stone, Monsters Inc, The King's Speech, Chicken
Run.
Best ever telly: Doctor
Who, Waterloo Road, Mock The Week, The Apprentice, The Simspons, Life
on Mars, Wallace and Gromit.
Favourite novels: Revolutionary
Road by Richard Yates, Anything by Sarah Dessen, The Handmaid's Tale by
Margaret Atwood, Birdsong by Sebastian Faulkes, The Shack by William P.
Young.
Outstanding ambition:
To walk the red carpet at the CMA Music Awards in Nashville.
Favourite lyric: "It's
not time to make a change, Just relax and take it easy." Father and
Son, Cat Stevens.
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