Victoria Derbyshire
British broadcaster
Having someone to come in every day and tidy my house.
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Seeing Leyton Orient in the premiership.
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Everyone comes to me for advice, and I wish they didn’t. I negotiate fees for other artists, give advice on property, on food, on clothes, on pensions. I can be standing on a corner in another country and someone will approach me for help.
A better knee and better lungs.
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If mobile phones hadn’t been invented.
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Nothing: the good times, the bad times, they make your character.
A detective, a train driver on the underground and Leyton Orient’s centre forward.
Frightening, exhilarating and all-consuming.
Twice I should have died in car accidents when both my cars were written off. I was completely unhurt; the cello was completely unhurt, too. A complete miracle.
I’m president of my neighbourhood association. At my first meeting there was a discussion about developments the association should oppose. I said: “Nothing could be as bad as that horrible new house next to the church.” “I designed that,” the chairman replied. I shut up.
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