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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗
Weirdly, sometimes exhaustion keeps me awake. If I am really tired, I won’t sleep well.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 February 2023 source ↗
Climate change. That is the single most important calamity in the making that I obsess over.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 May 2022 source ↗
A bee in my bonnet – whether that’s a song in my head or a person I’m thinking about.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 September 2022 source ↗
The next morning. It rarely turns out as bad as I think it’s going to be.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2017 source ↗
That moment in Bilbao in 2020, when I tried to cross the street and did a pirouette and suffered a dreadful break in my right leg, which means now I have 10 screws and a band in it.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗
I’ve been a strong advocate that all my five children should be great swimmers, so you can deduce what my fear is.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗
I cleaned the toilets at the local pub every Saturday morning.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗
“You’re a wonderful musician but a terrible friend.” It was Daniel Barenboim, the famous conductor, because I didn’t have time in the calendar to work with him.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗
In 2006, I went fishing for red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico. On the way back, one of the engines caught fire and then we had one engine for 70 miles. Slowly but surely, we got to Baton Rouge in the darkness but then got very close to a very large passing ship – they didn’t see us and we didn’t see them.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗
Full of passion and laughter.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗
Abigail Breslin, Adam Clayton, Adam Lambert, Adam Peaty, Adjoa Andoh, Aidan Gillen
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