Anita Rani: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

If you could edit your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

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

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

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

Recorded Anita Rani said elsewhere, not written here

I am who I am because of that messed-up childhood.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 July 2021 source ↗

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Justin Hawkins

Absolutely nothing.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2025 source ↗

Richard Coles British musician, writer, presenter and priest

My financial incompetence.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2023 source ↗

Jimmy Carter 39th President of the United States, 1977–1981; Governor of Georgia 1971–1975

I wish I sent one more helicopter to get the hostages and we would have rescued then and I - I would have been re-elected, but that may have - and that may have interfered with the foundation of the Carter Center. And if I had to choose between four more years and the Carter Center, I think I would choose the Carter Center.

Recorded News conference at the Carter Center, Atlanta, as transcribed by CNN, 20 August 2015 source ↗

Robert Glenister English actor

That I wasn’t quite as arrogant when I got successful.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 July 2022 source ↗