Alistair McGowan – your questions answered on piano, football and why he'll never impersonate Trump

Yes, of course. Certainly in my stand-up act. It would be strange to ignore voices of people on television and in film simply because of their colour.

I had never felt a need to belong to any particular group, changing the football club I supported is evidence of that. I've also jumped around in my career from actor to impressionist to writer and now to pianist. I often wondered why I did not feel the need to belong and wondered if it was a weakness in me. Doing Who Do You Think You Are? made me realise that I came from generations of people (on my father's side) who had not really belonged. It was a comfort to me that this genetic trait may explain my fleet-footed attitude to life.

Funny you should say that. He is on my list of people to do. All new voices have been put largely on the back burner for the last year while I've been absorbed in the piano project.

As a student in Leeds in the 1980s, I was surprised how many of the people I met there had chosen to go to Leeds because they had supported Don Revie's legendary Leeds United team. I was one of them. Controversially, once the the players associated with that great team left the club, it didn't feel like my Leeds anymore. I switched my allegiance to Coventry City, who were my nearest team when I was in my late teens. I now follow neither with anything more than a passing interest. I have been misrepresented online as being an ardent Leeds United supporter. It was the Revie era when I was totally absorbed by the club. Sorry to disappoint! It would be great to see them both back in the Premier League - I think Leeds will get there ahead of The Sky Blues.

It clashed with a show that I was working on for ITV called You Cannot Be Serious for which I had great hopes. YCBS was great fun to do, was moved around the schedules and largely flopped after one six-part series. There was some good stuff in it but maybe I should have done the second series of Leonardo after all.

I'm thrilled you liked the show. Certainly Satie's three Gymnopedies and his Gnossiennes 1-4 are fairly straight forward (Gnossienne 2 is probably the easiest). I made the mistake of thinking his Cold Piece (Danse de travers iii) was straight forward and never got through it without a mistake somewhere in the 28 Edinburgh shows. But, yes, the mood is everything with Satie.

This is the main reason why I was happy to do The Piano Album. I really hope the pieces I have chosen will appeal to somebody of your level. Do find a teacher. They will, at the very least, teach you how to get the best out of your practice time. There is a playlist related to the album which will guide you to other similar pieces. My chosen pieces are probably easier. I always look for something with the words lent or adagio at the top. That helps!

Trick question there was no FA Cup between 1939 and 1946. Portsmouth, I believe, won it in 1939 and held the trophy for six years. A record. Acquiring facts like that is why I didn't study the piano when I was younger.

It does help but do cut your nails first. If you persist in playing by ear, it's also best to de-hair them.

If I had to make a choice I would rather have a radio. And I would listen to classical music all day long, although I would switch to the sports coverage for the football on a Saturday afternoon.

I do wish I'd learnt more then. But I was convinced by a wonderful young musician called Lucy Colquhoun that it is never too late and the best thing about taking up/going back to the piano in later life is that you know more music and know what you want to play. And you possibly play it with more feeling after all that life has thrown at you by the age of 52.

I was a huge fan of Morgana Robinson's last series The Agency. I thought her impersonations were brilliant, the material was original, very funny, well written and unusually moving. When I met her recently, I was very sorry to hear the series had not been recommissioned. It was a work of genius on the part of all involved.

Frequently. As impressionists, we all know that certain impressions we do are better than others. I for several years did an impression in my act of Michael Portillo which was not very accurate. I used it to illustrate a point about how surprised he was that the industry in the towns he went to on his train programme had vanished, when perhaps governments he was involved with might have been responsible for that. I couldn't miss the opportunity. The gag worked better in places like Chorley than it did in Tunbridge Wells.

Definitely Richard Madeley, with David Beckham a close second. Requests happen less and less now!

WALL-E. It's witty, profound, poignant and images of it have stayed with me ever since. I still see overweight people flying around in cars in my ever-approaching nightmares.