Adrian Oliver
| Star Sign: |
Libra |
| Career History: |
University of Aberystwyth
Law College, Guildford
Dolmans since 1981
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| Interesting Facts |
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| Sporting Heroes: |
Geoff Hurst, Bobby Moore, Martin Peters, Bobby Charlton, Gordon Banks, Gareth Edwards, JPR Williams, Colin Jackson, Daley Thompson, Mary Peters, Jamie Baulch |
| What Drives Me: |
Determination, anger, frustration and logic |
| Likes: |
Good manners, intelligence, optimism, enthusiasm and the innocence and open heartedness of children |
| Dislikes: |
Bad manners, crudity, sexism, discrimination, broccoli, whole tomatoes, coffee, TV soaps, phoney politicians, dishonesty, machinery that breaks down |
| What makes me laugh?: |
My kids, John Cleese |
| Favourite TV Shows: |
House, The Wire, Cracker, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Waking The Dead |
| Top Holiday Destination: |
Anywhere on a cruise ship, but probably Venice or Norwegian Fjords |
| Favourite Films: |
It’s A Wonderful Life, Life of Brian, A Matter of Life and Death, Love And Death, Monty Python And The Holy Grail |
| Favourite Music: |
David Bowie, Talking Heads, XTC, Elton John, Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel, Alabama 3, Warren Zevon, Steely Dan, Led Zeppelin, Nick Cave, Sting, Gang of Four, Grace Jones, Queen, Radiohead, Julian Cope, Wynonna Judd, Joy Division, New Order, Scritti Politti, Beatles, Jethro Tull, Elvis Costello, etc. |
| Favourite Books: |
Roads To Freedom, Being and Nothingness and Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre, The Outsider and The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis, 1984 by George Orwell, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Sense And Nonsense In Psychology by Hans Eysenck, Nana, Germinal, Therese Raquin and La Bete Humaine by Emile Zola, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| Interests / Hobbies: |
Music (guitars), football, rugby, looking after my kids |
| What else?: |
I have 8 kids, no twins – one wife |
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