When were you happiest?

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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.

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Recorded Stuart Broad said elsewhere, not written here
Winning the Ashes in 2009.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 February 2013 source ↗

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Bonnie Raitt Singer and guitarist
As a kid, my summers at camp in the Adirondacks. And as an adult, when I’m onstage.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2022 source ↗

Donny Osmond American singer, dancer, actor, television host
In 1971, I was sitting in a hotel room in London and there was a television chat show going on, debating whether Donny Osmond should be deported because of the chaos he was wreaking. And while I was watching this, there were fans on the street below, chanting my name. I was 13 and thought, “Does it get any better than this?”

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2016 source ↗

Archie Panjabi British actress
When I got a doctorate from my alma mater, Brunel. My mother always wanted me to become a doctor.

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

Marian Keyes Irish writer
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 ↗

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