Ruth Jones
Welsh actress, producer, and writer
Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West).
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 November 2018 source ↗
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One Nation Under a Groove, by Funkadelic.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 August 2017 source ↗
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Bernadine Evaristo
English author and academic
Disappear by Beyoncé.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2020 source ↗
Rick Stein
English chef
Sanctus from Fauré's Requiem.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 September 2013 source ↗
Engelbert Humperdinck
British singer
I don’t like to think about that.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 February 2019 source ↗
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I had a gun shoved in my eyeball in New York by a crack dealer in the 1980s. I have also watched somebody next to me get shot in the head in a gun battle – that was in Jamaica in the early 1990s.
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In 1975, I watched the film Stardust, and Adam Faith said, “I supply the birds, the pills and the pot.” And I thought, “I want that.”
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When I was 15 and starting my first job as a messenger boy at the post office, delivering telegrams.
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