When were you happiest?

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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

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Recorded Marianne Faithfull said elsewhere, not written here
When I was a child and a teenager, before I got discovered.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2011 source ↗

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Adrian Dunbar Irish actor
My first year of drama school: a sense of freedom, doing something I wanted to do and being with lovely people.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 August 2022 source ↗
Paul Merson English footballer and pundit
On holiday in Orlando with my wife, Kate, and kids just before lockdown. I wasn’t drinking or gambling. I was so happy, so at peace with myself – I’d been searching for that for many a year.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 January 2023 source ↗
Samira Ahmed British journalist and writer
On stage, interviewing one of my heroes, Paul McCartney, at the Royal Festival Hall last November.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 January 2022 source ↗

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Question If you had only one day left to live, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid doing? Death & what remains
I’d like to see all my friends. I would have my breakfast and then I would go to Ireland and see my friends – Frank McGuinness, Penny and Desmond Guinness…all those people. I would have lunch in the castle with Penny and Desmond and maybe some other people, then in the afternoon I would go to New York and do the same thing.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 11 March 2011 source ↗

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