My arts list: Stephen Linstead

I'M CURRENTLY READING: Selina Todd's The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class. It's particularly interesting as she focuses on pools winner Viv Nicholson, whose infamous mantra was to 'spend, spend, spend'. I never met Vivian, but I do have a copy of her truly awful attempt at a pop record, Don't Cry/RIP. It's a reminder not to lose a sense of my own limitations.

I’ve been listening to: A lot of David Bowie recently – as, I suspect, has everyone else. But I’ve also been dipping into the back catalogue of the extraordinary American banjo player, composer and arranger Alison Brown. The Eagles have also figured largely in recent weeks – with the death of that amazing talent Glenn Frey.

On TV, I’ve been watching: Netflix’s Jessica Jones. Mesmerising performances throughout. David Tennant is brilliant and also chilling as the villain, Kilgrave (you absolutely loathe him one minute and fall in love with him the next). There’s blood all over the place.

The film I last saw was: It was on DVD, and it was the truly amazing The Salt of the Earth, by that sublimely elegiac Brazilian environmentalist turned photographer, Sebastio Salgado. I was warned that the ancient TV on which I was going to watch it would not do it justice, so I went out and bought a brand spanking new one. It is stunning.

My next box set will be: Arne Dahl, and that’s even if I have to go to Stockholm to lay my hands on it. I love my job, but it involves a lot of travelling. As a consequence I miss a lot of things I want to watch, and when I return I find myself often having a ‘binge weekend’, catching up. Oh, and I even own a Scandinavian Detectives T-shirt!

• These Fragments has been shortlisted for the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards.