A good listener.
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Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
As a well-balanced and functioning thin man.
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As a writer who took cheering up his listeners seriously.
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Human, evolving and faithful.
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Selling low-grade cookery books in west London office buildings.
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The concept of New Labour.
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Sending a text meant for my wife to Dara O'Briain by mistake, revealing myself to be a control freak.
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To my 17-year-old daughter Isabella, whom I described in an interview last year as "keen on maths".
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Sinatra's The Best Is Yet To Come.
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