Angela Hartnett
English chef
Washing up in the Ford factory canteen in Dagenham.
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What most recently made you cry?
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What would you like to be remembered for?
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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I worked in the customer services department of a mobile phone gambling company and it was very depressing, because the people calling up were usually not happy.
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Edward Enninful
Ghanaian-born English editor and stylist
A shoot with a showbusiness icon who I’d loved all my life and shall remain nameless. She walked into the room and immediately said she hated everything. Things went downhill from there. Rough day.
du Beke
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I was a door-to-door carpet-cleaning salesman. I thought my life was going to end, so I binned that after a day.
Julian Sands
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Father Christmas at a department store. The plaintive sadness of the children’s unrealistic requests was almost unbearable.
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