Sara Cox
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Getting a daily show on Radio 2, because that was an ambition for so long.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 August 2019 source ↗
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Originally asked
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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.
When my second child Bella was born in 2006. I missed my son Ben being born because I was racing, so seeing it for the first time was quite an experience.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗
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View all 576 →This morning in bed.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2008 source ↗
In Paris and Italy, the summer after graduating from college.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2004 source ↗
When it’s just us as a family on our island hideaway in Wales.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 October 2015 source ↗
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View profile →I’ve never had a job.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗
Never going back to the Tour de France and trying to win again.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗
I had quite a chequered childhood. I had a knife put to my throat once when I was a kid, which was very scary.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗
Loss of control.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗
As an honest person who did his best.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗
This isn’t a complaint, but obscurity would be nice. You can’t have a bad day in public because everyone’s got phones.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗
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