Mark Radcliffe: What do you fear most? — FLAPSS

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What do you fear most?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

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Mark Radcliffe

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Heights, something happening to my children and Manchester United getting good again (I’m a Man City fan).

The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2025 source ↗

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I don’t want to be lost and burn in hell.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2001 source ↗

Joan Rivers Comedian

Being poor—or, worse, having Kelsey Grammer fight with Teddy Kennedy over who is to drive me home.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2014 source ↗

A Broadway theater filled with nothing but critics.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2021 source ↗

Christian Louboutin

Losing my virginity.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2021 source ↗

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Question As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself? Identity & self

A drummer in a famous band or an astronaut.

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Question What worries you about getting older? Time & hindsight

Nothing. I survived a cancer scare at 60, so I am just overjoyed to be here.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2025 source ↗

Question What do you believe happens when we die? Death & what remains

A nice long rest.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2025 source ↗

Question What would you most want to leave your children? Death & what remains

A sense of what’s right, a few quid and some nice paintings.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2025 source ↗

Question How close have you come to dying? Death & what remains

Throat and neck cancer in 2018. They told me six to eight months if it hadn’t been caught.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2025 source ↗

Question What is the worst job you have ever had? Craft & work

Working in a bottle factory, which lasted one day, and the Radio 1 breakfast show.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2025 source ↗

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