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Some of my favourite short stories (external links)

The £1,000,000 Bank-Note by Mark Twain
17776 (What football will look like in the future) by Jon Bois
2 B R 0 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut
The Adventure of a Bather by Italo Calvino
The Birdcage Heart by Peter M Ball
Blue Tigers by Jorge Luis Borges
The Brass Teapot by Tim Macy
The Call of Cthulhu by H P Lovecraft
The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin
The Cheater's Guide to Love by Junot Díaz
The Country of the Blind by H G Wells
Cream by David Firth
The Destructors by Graham Greene
Eating Van Gogh by Mark Simon Burk
Faith and Hope Go Shopping by Joanne Harris
The Gift of the Magi by O Henry
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
The Index by J G Ballard
India World by Amit Gupta
The Lady or the Tiger? by Frank Stockton
A Lifestyle by Fernando Sorrentino
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Martha by Matt Leibel
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C Clarke
The Open Window by Saki
People Reluctant to Kill for an Abstraction by George Saunders
The Perfect Fit by Hall Jameson
Samphire by Patrick O'Brian
Spar by by Kij Johnson
Stone by Matthew Kneale
They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson
We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read by Caroline M Yoachim
Twenty-six Men and a Girl by Maxim Gorky
Understand by Ted Chiang

Some of my favourite poems (external links)

Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas
Eurydice by Sue Hubbard
First They Came by Pastor Martin Niemöller
Funeral Blues by W H Auden
If— by Rudyard Kipling
I Remember I Was A Point, I Was A Circle by Houda Al-Naamani
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
Ode by Arthur O'Shaughnessy
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Revenge by Elisa Chavez
Simeon's Parties by Lucy Courtenay
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
That Love is all there is by Emily Dickinson
This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin
The Tyger by William Blake
A Visit from Saint Nicholas by Clement Clark Moore (attributed)
When I see young women, I see our glow by Amanda Gorman
The Zero Point Field by Simon Welsh

Some of my favourite pre-millennial video games

Bubble Bobble (and Puzzle Bobble)
Commander Keen series
Doom
Duke Nukem 3D
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Kurtan
Lemmings series
Pac-Man
Popcorn
Quest series by Sierra On-Line (King's, Police & Space)
Sim City 2000
Super Mario Bros series
Super Mario Kart
Tetris
Worms

Some of my favourite theatre experiences

The Masque of the Red Death (Punchdrunk at Battersea Arts Centre)
My Neighbor Totoro (RSC at Barbican Theatre)
The Smile Off Your Face (Ontroerend Goed)
Paddington: the Musical (Savoy Theatre)
You Me Bum Bum Train (2025 run)

Brief Encounter (Kneehigh)
Derren Brown: Underground (Playhouse Theatre)
James and the Giant Peach (Polka Theatre)
Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre)
Prima Facie (National Theatre)

Avenue Q (Noël Coward Theatre)
Don John (Kneehigh at Battersea Arts Centre)
Groundhog Day (The Old Vic)
Hamilton (Victoria Palace Theatre)
Tristan & Yseult (Kneehigh at Shakespeare's Globe)

Acting in my local theatre company as a teenager
ENRON (Noël Coward Theatre)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Vaudeville Theatre)
Jersey Boys (Piccadilly Theatre)
Popcorn (The University of Birmingham Guild of Students)

Cinderella with BSL interpretation (Brixton House)
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace Theatre)
Holding Fire! (Shakespeare's Globe)
The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess Theatre)
Stomp (Ambassadors Theatre)

Lights Off (The University of Birmingham Guild of Students)
Spirited Away (London Coliseum)
Tiny Little Town (Theatre Movement Bazaar, Greenwich Theatre)
The Woman in Black (Fortune Theatre)

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