Stephen Dillane: When were you happiest?

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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Stephen Dillane said elsewhere, not written here

Playing football in the school playground at lunchtime.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2014 source ↗

Others on this question

Sandi Toksvig Danish and British broadcaster, comedian and writer

Last Tuesday at 10 past three.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗

Marianne Faithfull English singer and actress

When I was a child and a teenager, before I got discovered.

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

Abigail Breslin American actress

Christmas 2007 – I got hair straighteners.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 January 2014 source ↗

Mel Giedroyc British actress and comedian

Yesterday: sun-lounger, back garden, cup of tea, radio on.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 August 2015 source ↗

In the first room of the Australian art exhibition at the RA. Don't know why. Loved it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2014 source ↗

I'd like the enormous congregation to sing Leonard Cohen's Come Healing.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2014 source ↗

Russell Brand, for being his own man.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2014 source ↗

A sense of purpose.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2014 source ↗

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