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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 March 2021 source ↗
My son's second birthday. It was a typical autumn day – bright sky, cold fingers. He was dressed as a skeleton and we ate chilli in the garden.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 November 2011 source ↗
Five to 10, when I was just playing out and I didn’t realise I was a girl. Before my boobs came in, basically.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗
The births of my kids and my wedding spring to mind.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 April 2010 source ↗
Last Tuesday, lying on the couch, watching Schitt’s Creek with my husband. Happiness is the small, ordinary days, not the big, up-in-lights ones.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 January 2021 source ↗
An actor or stuntman: I loved Lee Majors in The Fall Guy.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 March 2021 source ↗
At 20, I fell from a fourth-floor window and broke my back. For four days they said I’d never walk again, but I had a miraculous recovery.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 March 2021 source ↗
I lost my poodle, Mighty. He was out of my sight for just seven minutes; he went out on an adventure and didn’t come back, and was taken by a coyote, I think. It was awful, really painful; he taught me about love and loyalty, and how the connection between living beings can be.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 March 2021 source ↗
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