Barts 2018 - Watling

Best Album

John Field, Piano Concertos No. 2 & 4 - Benjamin Frith, David Haslam and Northen Sinfonia

Best Song
Alice Merton - No Roots

Best Musical Re-discovery
I haven’t rediscovered anything this year

Best Middle-Aged Man/Men Doing Excellent – If Hardly Ground-breaking - Stuff
I started to build a permanent Scalextric track up in the loft

Best Film
Avengers - Infinity War

Best Book
My Age of Anxiety - Scott Stossel

Best Gig/Event
I haven’t been to any gigs or events this year

Best TV Programme
The Informer

Best Radio Programme
Alexander Armstrong’s show on Classic FM 

Best Website
TheGuardian.com

Best Sporting Moment
Spurs finishing in the top four. Again. 

Revelation
Christine & The Queens

Worst Purchase / Disappointment
My purchases this year have been largely satisfactory. 

Best Child-Related Thing
Finding a massive tub of my old Lego in my Mum’s loft, then watching Megan and Peter use their imaginations playing with basic Lego bricks. 

Best Lifestyle Change
Working outside London was good, but brief. 

Sort
Elizabeth Olsen 

Person, People or Thing You’d Most Like to See Set Upon By a Pack of Wolves
Brexit 

The Winning Thing You’d Most Recommend Your Fellow Judges to Own/Have/Consume/Do
A car with an Ecoboost engine