Recommendations..



BBC Radio 4.



Music

Nina Simone
Singer, songwriter, piano player, activist.

Chris Clark (aka Clark)
Electronic music producer.

Professor Longhair
New Orleans blues singer and pianist.

Marcus Intalex
Drum and Bass DJ and Producer



Comedians/Writers

Chris Morris
Satirist and probably a genius.

Charlie Brooker
T.V. critic and acerbic voice of reason.

Stewart Lee
The 41st best stand-up ever

Julia Davis
Hand-bitingly good actress and writer



Novels/Novelists

One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Master and Margarita / Mikhail Bulgakov

Cold Comfort Farm / Stella Gibbons

The Fountainhead / Ayn Rand

Simone de Beauvoir

William Golding

Vladimir Nabokov

Iain M Banks

Angela Carter

And pretty much anything by Russian writers.



TV

The Wire (2002-2008)

Generation Kill (2008)

Cosmos (Carl Sagan, 1980)

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976-1979)

(unfortunately, most TV is rubbish)


Films

Harold and Maude (1971)

Network (1976)

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

Delicatessen (1991)

Hable con ella ( 'Talk to her' 2002)

Das Leben der Anderen ( 'The lives of others' 2006)

Holiday (1938)

Stealth (2005)

And all monster films, apart from the King Kong remake.
Look things up on IMDB.