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The NICE list
Good news! According to a certain Christmas advert, we’re all off the hook. As a reward for putting up with the Year of Weirdness, we’ve all been given a get-out-of-jail-free card for our sins, meaning that nobody’s on Santa’s Naughty list. OK; so who wants what, then? Pat wants crowds back in the stadium, and Tom wants a full theatre. Jody wants a hedgetrimmer, and Emma wants a pub. Marvin wants a hammock. Stan wants a magical cake – or failing that, any kind of cake . . .
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MARVIN REES, MAYOR OF BRISTOL At a city level, this Christmas I’d like a safe and stable home for every child in Bristol. On a personal level, I’d like a hammock.
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TOM MORRIS, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, BRISTOL OLD VIC My best imaginable Christmas presents would be: a bantom; a new album by June Tabor; a DVD of Ben Stokes’ hundred against Australia in 2019; an adaptor which allowed me to use headphones while recharging my phone; a ruined farmhouse in the Forest of Dean, which I could slowly rebuild over the next 20 years. And a full theatre.
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LINN WAITE, PRODUCER, EARLY DAY FILMS I’d love the Watershed and Cube to be open and showing classic Christmas movies on the big screen; my choices would be White Christmas and The Muppet Christmas Carol.
JODY THOMAS, ARTIST A cordless hedge-trimmer. I’ve cut through the wire of my inherited trimmer so many times it’s got slowly shorter every summer. Also, the final interior pieces for my Landrover project car; only four years in the making. I buy at least two coats or jackets a year but never throw them away. Pretty much every stitch of clothing I buy will eventually be demoted to painting clothes. Given the year it’s been, I’m also going to buy myself some art from artists to support them – some from Bristol, some from further afield.
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SHEILA HANNON, CREATIVE PRODUCER, SHOW OF STRENGTH A pair of Scrooge earrings, as played by Alastair Sim, from renownfilms.co.uk. They also sell a Bah Humbug print by Steve Lilly, and Margaret Rutherford earrings; a pair of those too, please.
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EMMA RICE, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, WISE CHILDREN I want a public house; aren’t they fantastic words, when you think about it? I want one of the many local pubs that have been forced to close in recent years. I want to breathe new life into it, and into the community it serves. I imagine a
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RICHARD JONES, PUBLISHER, TANGENT BOOKS Wales to beat England at everything. Free public transport. Bristol Rovers promoted. The introduction of Cider Day as a public holiday.
