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Bruce Robinson and Sophie Windham. Photograph: Saskia Jo/The Guardian

‘My first impression? Deeply uncool’

Bruce Robinson – best known as the writer and director of Withnail and I – met artist Sophie Windham at an Italian restaurant in London in 1982. He proposed three days later. They have been married for 42 years and still live and work side by side in the Welsh borders. They have two grownup children, Lily and Willoughby.