When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.
But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.
| Diane Ackerman, Poet (1948) |
| Sherman Alexie, Writer (1966) |
| Henry Alford, Clergyman (1810) |
| June Allyson, Actress (1917) |
| Amiri Baraka, Poet (1934) |
| Cotton Fitzsimmons, Coach (1931) |
| Clive James, Writer (1939) |
| Elizabeth Janeway, Author (1913) |
| William Samuel Johnson, Politician (1727) |
| Thomas Keneally, Novelist (1935) |
| Wally George, Celebrity (2003) |
| Natalia Ginzburg, (1991) |
| Radclyffe Hall, Poet (1943) |
| Johnny Kidd, Musician (1966) |

