Post Card Portraits
Mr Winkley Which three people dead or alive would you invite to a dinner party and why? Aristotle (polymath, influential on almost everything we think and believe); Stephen Fry (polymath, raconteur, clever but never conceited, good with people); WG Sebald (polymath, deep thinker, truly original) – wit and searching conversation guaranteed.
and sports coaches fascinating. I don’t detest anyone but I do struggle to like anything/ anyone on ITV between 7 and 10 on a Saturday night.
What are your best and worst fashion moments? Best – I thought I looked decent enough on my wedding day. Worst – photographic evidence from my twenties suggests I laboured under the delusion that facial hair suited me. More recently, that Morris Dancing get-up on Red Nose Day.
What one thing relating to St. Peter’s would you put into room 101 and why?
If you weren’t yourself who would you most like to be?
Nothing springs to mind: the best is great and the rest can be improved, rather than exiled to Room 101. If I were a pupil, maybe the lunch queue.
Jonathan Agnew.
What is your favourite thing about St. Peter’s and why? Our extraordinary community spirit: because everything else flows from that.
What do you consider to be your greatest achievement to date and do you have any unfulfilled ambitions?
What is your favourite film? Once Upon A Time In The West
What is your favourite album? It’s a tie between Bob Dylan “Blood on the Tracks” and The Divine Comedy “Bang Goes The Knighthood”.
Becoming Head Master of St Peter’s, and before that completing an Open University Masters in Education whilst working full-time. At school: walking 50 miles in a day. My unfulfilled ambition is to write a book.
Which three items would you take with you to a desert island and why? Running shoes (assuming it’s a decent sized island); water colour paints (to learn a new skill) and the complete works of WG Sebald (to keep my mind alive)
Which celebrities or public figures do you like/detest most and why? Public figures – I’m interested in anyone whose job entails leading others. I find football managers
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How do you imagine Heaven and Hell? Heaven is the end of desire; oneness with the divine; being wide asleep. Hell is the life of Scrat, the squirrel from Ice Age: always grasping for the object of his desire, never getting it, never overcoming his desire.
