Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2012 source ↗
Paul Irons, the deputy head at my school, Fernwood comprehensive. He was an inspiration, and still is.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 March 2018 source ↗
Harper Lee, for writing To Kill A Mockingbird.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2011 source ↗
My mum, for the way that she brought up her three children and managed to make her money work. She worked as a cleaner for all these families we went to church with. She would cycle there with my little sister on the back of her bike – we didn’t have a car. She had an amazing mind for planning and organising so that we got to do ballet, we went to Brownies.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2023 source ↗
An Italian neuroscientist called Rita Levi-Montalcini. She is now over 100. Under Mussolini she was forbidden from practising medicine because of the race laws. So she set up a lab in her basement, and the work she did there laid the foundations for her winning the Nobel prize.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2011 source ↗
At the birth of each of my children. Drugs were involved.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2012 source ↗
Abi Morgan, Adam Clayton, Adeel Akhtar, Adwoa Aboah, Alfre Woodard, Alice Eve
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