Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Richard Graves, marketing and financial director at GWS Media, answers our 10 questions
What was the LAST: 
Film you watched? Interstellar, a science-fiction film with some wonderful special effects but a second-rate plot.
Book you read? Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, a book that I hated at school and that, on re-reading, I found had a handful of brilliant scenes, but such a completely depressing view of life that my hatred was only moderately qualified.
Music you bought/downloaded? Piano Works of William Baines, a brilliant English pianist and composer who was carried off by TB tragically early at the age of 23
Concert or play you went to? The Producers, a very entertaining stage version at the Bristol Hippodrome of the Mel Brooks classic movie.
Sporting event you attended? The last sporting event I attended was a race meeting several years ago at which I had a wonderful time and came out narrowly ahead.
Holiday you went on? I visited Belfast last December and liked nearly everything apart from the evil-looking statue of Edward, Lord Carson, on the drive leading up to the Parliament Buildings at Stormont Castle.
Restaurant you ate in? Loch Fyne in the Old Granary building near my office. I enjoyed a wonderful whole lobster, washed down by a delicious Domaine des Dorices Muscadet.
Thing that annoyed you? A cyclist heading towards me in the wrong direction down the one-way street outside my office.
Thing that made you laugh out loud? Reading Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men on the Bummel, which includes a brilliant description of a bicycle fiend attempting to improve but actually ruining a perfectly good bicycle.
Piece of good advice you were given? Never to do more than two networking events per day. See below!
Richard Graves is the marketing and financial director of GWS Media, a Bristol marketing agency which is celebrating its 15th birthday this month. He is a prolific networker within the Bristol business community, on occasion attending as many as three events on the same day. He is also a published author with around 20 works to his credit, including biographies of A.E. Housman, T.E. Lawrence and his late uncle Robert Graves of I Claudius fame. He has also lectured widely on literary subjects, notably on the poets of the Great War of 1914-1918.
