My digital life — Martin Clowes

What’s your favourite site?

The Lancia Motor Club website, for Lancia car owners.

What have you bought recently online?

A DVD of the documentary Manufactured Landscapes, a totally brilliant, perception-altering study of 21st-century man’s impact on the globe.

The last book you bought online?

With the Jocks by Peter White – another perception-altering work. It is a real-life and illegal diary of soldier fighting in the Second World War.

Favourite way to network?

I prefer meeting face to face. My place of choice is a restaurant called the India Club off the Strand. Then again, Little Britain is coming up …

What’s in your digital holster?

A Sony Ericsson P910i (it still works and I've bought a second as reserve), a BlackBerry Pearl; an iPod Shuffle, a Panasonic Lumix TZ3 camera and a Lumix FX93 (a light model from the US for when I’m mountain climbing).

Do you still have time for good old-fashioned television?

TV is rubbish, so I listen to the radio instead, for example, Radio 3’s Ecstasy compilation from last Sunday night.

Where shall we play?

Rock climbing on the main wall of the Cyrn Las, in the Llanberis Pass in north Wales, the 4,000m routes around Zermatt in Switzerland, Hidcote Manor Garden, my garden, boats on the Solent or in Greece.

Failing that, my kitchen.

What tunes have you played most on iTunes in the past month?

The Plough boy by Sir Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten, which I’ve transfered from 78 vinyl using my vinyl-to-digital turntable; Laudate Dominum by Emma Kirkby; Smokestack Lightning by Howlin’ Wolf; and Hip Hug-Her by Booker T & the MGs.