Omid Djalili: 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 Omid Djalili said elsewhere, not written here

I'd edit out all the wrong people I surrounded myself with socially and professionally whom I thought I had to tolerate.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗

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Robert Carlyle Scottish actor

I'd have concentrated a bit more at school and maybe gone to university rather than drama school.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 February 2008 source ↗

Courtney Pine British jazz musician

I would have spent more time practising and got a proper lawyer to sort out my first album contract.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 September 2022 source ↗

Sadiq Khan Mayor of London since 2016

I would have had more time with my dad before he passed away.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 September 2016 source ↗

Laura Kenny English cyclist

I would have spent every single day with my sister before she left to live in New Zealand. At my wedding, it was the first time I had seen her in two and a half years.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2017 source ↗