Joan Bakewell: What keeps you awake at night?

Originally asked

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

A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Joan Bakewell said elsewhere, not written here

Wondering if I've turned the gas off.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2013 source ↗

Others on this question

Adam Lambert American singer

Online shopping for clothes.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 February 2023 source ↗

Isabelle Huppert French actress

A good film, a good book, a good script, a long phone call.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 May 2018 source ↗

Yayoi Kusama Japanese artist

I am an insomniac, so I often draw and write at night.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 May 2016 source ↗

Katharine Hamnett English fashion designer

Threat of nuclear war, Iran/US situation, Syria, everything. I take sleeping pills.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 September 2019 source ↗

My student days at Cambridge.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2013 source ↗

A hymn called The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, Is Ended.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2013 source ↗

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