Archive for the ‘London’ Category

Katy Menditta, what could you know about love?

Posted by | Female, London, music |

14 year old singer songwriter Katy Menditta is the most interesting person of Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of memory and founder of memrise. Hear her sing about love in the video below. A song that her nominee Ed Cooke describes as ’empirical evidence that emotion does not come from experience.”  

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Chris Wild, Retronaut

Posted by | Art, Collecting, Documentary, history, London, male, Photography |

Chris Wild is the most interesting person of John Mitchinson, director of QI “Most of us imagine the past in black and white. The earliest colour pictures were taking in the 1870s so when we see those early colour pictures they look like now, because they’re in colour. But it’s a different version of now. So I […]

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John Mitchinson, Director of QI Television Show

Posted by | history, London, male, TV |

John Mitchinson is the most interesting person of Roger Burton. He took us to a defunct London railway to demonstrate the battle between Man and Nature. I brought you somewhere I think is more than quite interesting. It’s a disused railway line in the north of London. It’s called the Northern Hight’s Railway and it runs […]

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Gina Birch, founding member of punk band The Raincoats

Posted by | Female, London, music |

Gina Birch is the most interesting person of Caroline Coon “I was completely besotted with conceptual art, land art and fine art and Punk was really interwoven for me.  It was new way of looking at the world, a way of finding my own voice that didn’t subscribe to the status quo.” Gina Birch is […]

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Caroline Coon, coined the term ‘Punk’

Posted by | Art, London |

Caroline Coon is the most interesting person of Duggie Fields freedom of speech is not limited to the inoffensive but extended also to the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and the provocative. As long as such speech does not tend to provoke violence. And as an artist this is also why […]

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Dame Zandra Rhodes, British Fashion Designer

Posted by | Design, Fashion, London |

Who is your most interesting person? The most interesting person I know is my good friend, the sculptor Andrew Logan. Zandra at home, and her design factory. “The most interesting person I know is my good friend, the sculptor Andrew Logan. I never went to college or studied fashion. And although I’ve done ok and have […]

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John Pearse, Tailor

Posted by | Fashion, London, male |

John Pearse is the most interesting person of Talvin Singh, OBE John Pearse is a man who seems to have lived more lives than anyone I’ve met. Over the course of our conversation I heard so many interesting anecdotes, was amazed over and over again – it was too much for one blog post really. Instead of […]

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