What is your nickname?
Your Worship
Why did you get into printing?
At 16, I saw a letterpress apprenticeship advertised in the local paper and I was the only applicant
What would be your dream job?
I’ve had my dream job as the production director of the Printing House of Oxford University Press in the 1980s. Those were the days!
Who would play you in a movie about your life?
Spike Milligan
What would you most like to print?
Money with my face on it
What is your favourite film?
Little Big Man
What is your favourite TV programme?
Fireball XL5
Sweet or savoury?
Savoury
Who or what do you hate the most?
Ingratitude – particularly from the Scottish. And anyone who uses the word literally when it is superfluous to the sentence, people that confuse the word Pacific with specific or say admiral when it should be admirable. I could go on!
Who do you admire most in the industry?
That bloke that used to run Polestar for getting away with it for so long
What is your favourite phrase or saying?
Nothing can go wrong now!
What is your favourite album?
Selling England by the Pound, Genesis
Cat or dog, or…?
Hedgehog
What is your greatest luxury in life?
After surviving three heart attacks – just more time
What is the strangest job you’ve ever done?
Printed a mortician’s handbook!
Who would you like to be stuck on a desert island with?
Debbie, before she did Dallas
What is your greatest ambition?
To live long enough to dance on the graves of a couple of banned directors that I used to know
What’s your greatest fear?
Being too far from a defibrillator
Who or what makes you laugh?
My colleague Martin’s wonderful and word perfect rendition of the Biggus Dickus sketch from the Life of Brian film – hilarious!
Which celebrity would you like to get out of here? Why?
Anyone with the name Kardashian
Where would you like to be right now?
In Siena watching the Palio
What’s your worst fashion disaster?
Checked Oxford bags with a teardrop collar shirt and a green and yellow tank-top with baseball boots. Those were the days!
Which superpower would you like to have?
Hindsight – everyone else seems to like having bundles of it!
Who would be your favourite party guests?
Bishop Desmond Tutu, Lenny Henry, Ken Dodd, Sid James, Les Dawson, Frankie Howerd, Kenneth Williams – should be a laugh
Where would you go if you could time-travel?
Last week’s lottery ticket store
What is the worst kind of print?
Anything unprofitable
What was the best business deal that you’ve pulled off?
Winning the tender to supply the original Financial Services Authority with the various volumes of rules governing the entire financial industry
How would you like to be remembered?
As the oldest man in the world
Life is…?
Still bloody marvellous
