Comedian BILL BAILEY describes the wild, alpine beauty of the North Devon coast – his favourite place since childhood – and explains why a sea view is best for creative thought. Interview: Alex Reece
'North Devon is much wilder and more sparsely populated. There are thousand-foot-high sea cliffs and these plunging valleys. I often sit in the house and just realise, yeah, this is why writers and poets go to places like this'