| What’s your full name? |
Simon Bruce Potter |
| What made you want to be on the radio? |
It's so long ago I can't remember! |
| If you weren’t on the radio – what would you be? |
A publisher and author |
| You can only choose five songs to listen to on repeat for the rest of your life… what would they be? |
Guns’n’Roses – ‘November Rain’
Joe Bonamasa – ‘Sloe Gin’
Deep Purple – The Made-in-Japan live version of ‘Child in Time’
Pink Floyd – ‘Comfortably Numb’Iron Maiden – ‘The Reincarnation of Benjamin Brieg’ |
| If you could invite any five people to a dinner party, who would they be? |
Stephen Fry
Giles Brandreth
Martin Bell
JK Rowling
and (if I can have fictional characters) Captain Jean-Luc Picard |
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Simon Potter
You can hear Simon reading the news weekdays 6.30-11am
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| You must have met some famous people being on the radio… who’s your favourite? |
William Hague was a really nice, genuine, bloke and Bobby Charlton was great, too. |
| What would you say is the best view in the local area? |
Ferry Meadows viewed from Castor Heights in the autumn |
| Which character on the telly or at the movies are you most like, and why? |
I think somebody else ought to answer that! |
| It’s the last supper – what would the starter, main course and dessert of your final meal be? |
Garlic mushrooms followed by a baked potato with melted Red Leicester cheese full of diced red onions and red peppers and then toffee cheesecake to finish it all off. If a pint of JHB’s on hand to wash it all down, that would be perfection. |
| If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be? |
New Zealand |
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