Ronald Harwood: How close have you come to death?

How close have you come to death?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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Recorded Ronald Harwood said elsewhere, not written here

Having a heart attack two days after my wife’s funeral.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 November 2016 source ↗

Others on this question

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Jon Snow

When interviewing Idi Amin of Uganda in 1975, he shouted: “We have ways of dealing with people like you.”

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 March 2024 source ↗

Liam Gallagher English singer-songwriter

When I was about seven or eight years old, I was messing about in a brook with my brothers and a friend of mine, Paul Hewitt, and I almost drowned. Paul saved me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2017 source ↗

Emilia Fox English actress and presenter

I’ve been to two postmortems in real life, and spent the last 14 years talking about death at work – so, pretty close.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 October 2018 source ↗

Edwina Currie Former British politician, broadcaster and writer

Brighton, 1984. I was in another hotel just a few yards away.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 June 2017 source ↗