Who would you spend an hour with?

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Sir Bobby Robson would be my choice!

 

The dial-a-llama might be interesting

 

Tough. I'm ruling out Robbie Savage.

 

Probably my maternal grandfather, to talk about about his WWI experiences at Gallipoli.

 

Family: Paternal grandfather I never knew.
Other: Clement Attlee

 

Ruled out Vernon Kay, too.

 

Football : Graham Taylor
Religion: Ramakrishna or Dalai Llama
Politics: Nelson Mandela
Woman: Carol Evans ( I missed it big time with her 40 years ago!)
Scientist: Einstein
Musician: So many but Female: Joni Mitchell Male: Arthur Lee

 

My paternal grandfather who died when he was 45 and my dad was only 7. If it had to be someone famous, I would go for Martin Luther King.
The female one is Dame Ellen Macarthur.

 

Where to begin?

Aristotle, Charles Darwin, William Shakespeare, Galileo, Alfred the Great, Jerome K Jerome, George Orwell, Cicero, Christopher Columbus, Dr W G Grace....there may be a need for a much longer bench!

 

football - Luther Blissett, Music - David Crosby or Carlos Santana. Other than that, Malala Yousafzai, Peter Kropotkin, Che Guevarra, Rosa Luxemburg and Chief Seattle. I'm sure there are others eg. Heidi Klum (under the bench for an hour)

And Leo Tolstoy.

 

Any of you lot. It would be good to put names to faces and lives.

Of the famous, all the usual suspects and some of the really evil scumbags that have run things. I find people like Hitler and Stalin hard to fathom. It would also be interesting to meet them when they were, say, 20 and much nearer the end of their lives.

 

Family : My Paternal Grandfather, who ran away to sea at 14. Worked for a circus in New Zealand, Made a fortune and had it stolen by a partner, was on the Ark Royal WWII. I miss him and would like to write his story.
Historic: Francis Drake
Music : Paul McCartney and George Gershwin
Sport: Sir Elton John and Mohammed Ali
Writer : Theo with his tales of Watford and Winfrith

But this is cheating in answer to the question my Grandfather Sidney Turner (but I'm not sure an hour is long enough)

 

Only one person for it really. Mau a Mexican I have lost touch with and used to live with in Japan.

Now, I speak Spanish and live here, but can not hunt him down despite trying....

 

My father. He had a very hard time as a youngster, and refused to talk about it. He died when I while still a teenager and it is only in the last ten years that I have been able to piece some of his life and family together. There are still lots of blanks that I would like to ask him about and would like him to fill those in.

 

I'm not usually mentioned in such exalted company, Charlie! Your grandfather sounds a real character and I think you should begin to write his story straight away. If you need any help editing, I'd be more than happy to help...

 

Evil: Hitler

Smart/Enlightened: Sir David Attenborough, Neil de Grasse Tyson, Seth Soshtak

Purely Selfish Reasons: Serena Williams (but that sand gets everywhere)

 

Thank you Theo, I retire at the end of next month, having now moved to the Kent Coast this is one of my intended projects, with any luck I may well take you up on your offer.

 

A lot to be said for retirement, Charlie. I spent the early years of mine in Whitstable...lovely place apart from the summer tourists!

 

Family: maternal grand father, died before I was born in his fifties. Never heard a bad word about him and we could have played, watched & talked cricket as he could have played for Essex but for is dodgy ticker with did for him. I would have liked to have talked a lot more to my parents & grandparents too.
Football : Sir Alf - to ask him what has gone wrong!
Cricket: Geoffrey Boycott
Religion: God (all of them) - if any of them turn up, which I doubt, to ask them to get their act together.
Politics: Tyrion Lannister
Woman: Elizabeth I
Scientist: Darwin
Musician: Rock - Pete Townshend, Classical Berlioz

Difficult to call really.