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Sixty seconds with LC Tyler...
LC (Len) Tyler is now a full-time writer after a career with the British Council and, most recently, as chief executive of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. He is the author of The Herring Seller's Apprentice and Ten Little Herrings.
RTE: Describe yourself in a sentence?
Tyler: Well-rounded. (But I'm going on a diet soon.)
RTE: What's the one record you'd take to a desert island?
Tyler: Beethoven's violin concerto. I remember taking a tape of it out into the desert in the Sudan and lying under the stars listening to it.
RTE: What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Tyler: Rich. Later I changed my mind and became a writer.
RTE: Who's your oldest friend?
Tyler: I'm still in touch with a lot of people I was at university with. Probably it's Ed Nicol, who was also best man at my wedding 25 years ago. (Hi, Ed, if you ever read this!)
RTE: If I ruled the world...
Tyler: I've just given up the day job to concentrate on writing, so there's no way I'm taking on something like that. Most of the things people say they'd do under those circumstances are rubbish anyway - if every day was the first day of spring, for example, it would be disastrous for bio-diversity. So, I'd probably just pass one or two extremely punitive measures on the subject of punctuation and hand over to somebody who actually wanted the job.
RTE: Which book do you wish you'd written?
Tyler: The Catcher in the Rye.
RTE: What makes you angry?
Tyler: Political correctness of any sort.
RTE: Name your five dream dinner party guests.
Tyler: Winnie the Pooh, Rabbit, Tigger, Kanga, Christopher Robin.
RTE: Who would you least like to be stuck in a lift with?
Tyler: The only time I have been stuck in the lift was with our daughter Catrin when she was eight. She blamed me and then screamed until somebody let us out. (I've just checked with her - she still blames me, 13 years later.) So, next time I'd prefer it to be with somebody else.
RTE: What inspired you to start writing?
Tyler: Many years ago, one wet lunch time at school, I saw a book on the shelves whose worn spine appeared to say: "Three Men India Boat". The title intrigued me - and I liked geography - so I took it out and read it. It proved to be Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat. I had never read anything so funny. It was round about then that I started to think it would be cool to be a writer.
RTE: Where would you most like to live?
Tyler: I spent a lot of my working life travelling and living overseas - Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Khartoum, Copenhagen, Stockholm. There are still plenty of places I'd like to visit, but I'm happy where I am (London and Sussex).
RTE: Sum up your latest book in no more than 12 words.
Tyler: More criminal capers with literary jokes thrown in for good measure.
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