Clive Myrie
British journalist, newsreader, and presenter
Coming under attack while reporting in Iraq.
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An emergency landing in a snow storm in Philadelphia.
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Noel Clarke
English actor and filmmaker
A car crash in the Utah mountains in 2005. We were driving from Arizona to Salt Lake City to go to a basketball game and the car slipped on black ice and we skidded off the motorway, flipped over and rolled down a ravine. The police officer said it was the worst accident he’d seen in 18 years when nobody died.
Gloria Steinem
Writer and feminist organiser
I’ve had cancer three times, but never felt close to death except when I walked between parked cars on my street and a car sped past my nose.
I’ve had a few hairy scrapes as a scuba diver.
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Cell Block Tango from the musical Chicago.
Unnecessary judgment.
I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining.
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