Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
This exact question recurs in The Guardian's institutional Q&A pool.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2022 source ↗
The world doesn’t reward talent, it mostly rewards those who are connected.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 April 2019 source ↗
The Guardian’s review of my book.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 November 2018 source ↗
I spent about five years living in Paris thinking I would become Kristin Scott Thomas, and it didn’t happen.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 September 2025 source ↗
That I am not a chorus girl in a West End musical.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2017 source ↗
A cream suit from Chanel that cost almost as much as a small car.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2022 source ↗
Working as the assistant to an agony aunt on a women’s magazine. When we didn’t get enough heartbreaking letters, we made them up.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2022 source ↗
Like coming home.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2022 source ↗
When I first met Richard, in 1992, on a British Council writers’ tour of Adelaide. We were drinking Australian lager while parakeets squawked rudely in the neighbourhood gumtrees.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2022 source ↗
We live in a fearful age: Brexit, Covid, global warming, cancel culture, war in Ukraine. Add in pancreatic cancer and you find me in an advanced and complex state of anxiety.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2022 source ↗
Meryl Streep. For all her truthful and perfected offerings that have taken me to an “elsewhere”, in which my mind could feel both soothed and stimulated.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2022 source ↗
Adam Clayton, Adam Kay, Adam Lambert, Adeel Akhtar, Adrian Dunbar, Adrian Edmondson
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