Archive for the ‘male’ Category

Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of memory and founder of Memrise

Posted by | Author, Education, London, male |

Ed Cooke is the most interesting person of Chris Wild, Founder of Retronaut Ed founded the memrise platform which aims to make learning a joyful experience and has millions of members around the world. He is also a memory grandmaster champion. And, by the by casually come up with the concept of Vine. I met […]

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 […]

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 […]

Roger Burton curator, collector and founder of the Horse Hospital

Posted by | Collecting, exhibition, Film, London, male, Photography, venue |

“My names Roger Burton. i’m primarily a collector, a collector of things; mostly fashion items from the last 50 years. And magazines and toys and god knows. Through my collecting instincts I’ve met some very interesting people who also collect and since i’ve been in this building I’ve started to collect people and art and […]

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 […]

Talvin Singh OBE, Bringing tabla to the world via East London

Posted by | London, male, music |

Since crashing the scene in the early 90’s and winning the Mercury Music Prize in 1999, Singh has been relentlessly carving his individual sound, reformulating influences from East and West into the audiosphere. Who is your most interesting person? John Pearse, tailor

Rico Rodriguez MBE, SKA Reggae trombonist

Posted by | London, male, music |

Rico Rodriguez is the most interesting person of Jerry Dammers One of Rico Rodriguez’s defining musical moments is his trombone riff in The Specials’ track, A Message To You Rudy, which he recorded with Jerry Dammer in 1979. Rico’s life and career spans Cuba, Jamaica and London. He was taught by Don Drummond who is widely regarded […]