Literary lunch with Loyd Grossman

Loyd Grossman’s career has taken him from food (restaurant critic and  Loyd Grossman Sauces ) to television (Through the Keyhole, Masterchef ), to punk music (eight Glastonbury appearances with Jet Bronx and the Forbidden) and to the arts (as a former chairman of the Churches Conservation Trust and Heritage Alliance and now chairman of the Royal Parks and of Gresham College).

A past winner of BBC Celebrity Mastermind, Loyd talks today about 'Five Books That Have  Changed My Life' – in conversation with James Lee.  Loyd choices of books underscore his many varied interests: