In brief
Rooksana Hossenally
Section editor
Travel is my driving force in life, and although I have had the privilege of visiting 30 countries so far, my heart will always remain in India...
British culture:
Festivals:
Notting Hill Carnival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Glastonbury Music Festival, Raindance (film festival).
Gastronomy:
Fish and chips, scones, crumpets, cucumber sandwiches, tea. Pub culture.
Etiquette:
Form orderly queues, greet someone for the first time by shaking the hand and always say your pleases and thank yous.
British Comedy:
Benny Hill, Mr Bean, Monty Python, Blackadder, Only Fools & Horses, Some Mothers Do Have 'Em, Dad's Army, Fawlty Towers, The Royal Family, The Office, Ali G, Steptoe & Son, Absolutely Fabulous, The Vicar of Dibley, Outnumbered, The Inbetweeners.
British TV:
Soaps: EastEnders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks.
Poets:
Geoffrey Chaucer, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Wilfred Owen, John Betjeman and Ted Hughes.
Playwrights::
William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Harold Pinter.
Authors:
Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Bronte sisters, Thomas Hardy, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl, Stephen Fry and Nick Hornby.
Pride and Prejudice, Love Actually, Bridget Jones's Diary, James Bond series, Billy Elliot, Trainspotting, The Holiday, This Is England, Brighton Rock, The King's Speech and The Iron Lady.
The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Elton John, The Who, The Kinks, David Bowie, T. Rex, The Clash, Joy Division, Pink Floyd, Genesis, The Specials, Tom Jones, Blur, Oasis, Westlife, Take That, the Spice Girls, The Prodigy, Amy Winehouse, Radiohead, Razorlight, Adele, Coldplay and Muse.