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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗
In 1989, in Cuba, about to board a plane for Milan, where I was going to school for a year. The visa didn’t arrive in time, so I couldn’t board. The plane crashed and people died.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 September 2018 source ↗
Maybe in the 1990s, but I was so selfish at the time, I wouldn’t really have noticed what was going on.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2024 source ↗
Getting into a tense argument with Russell Crowe during one of the Vanity Fair Oscar parties.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 June 2025 source ↗
Making Apocalypse Now. I had a close call with a heart ailment due to anxiety, fear and physical abuse: I was not taking care of myself.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2017 source ↗
Loss of control.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗
As an honest person who did his best.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗
I’ve never had a job.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗
Never going back to the Tour de France and trying to win again.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗
When my second child Bella was born in 2006. I missed my son Ben being born because I was racing, so seeing it for the first time was quite an experience.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗
This isn’t a complaint, but obscurity would be nice. You can’t have a bad day in public because everyone’s got phones.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗
Adam Clayton, Adam Peaty, Adeel Akhtar, Adrian Edmondson, Aidan Gillen, Alex Lawther
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