Helen George: When were you happiest?

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

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

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

Recorded Helen George said elsewhere, not written here

As a child playing in my parents’ garden in Birmingham, which they still have, and where my daughters play, swinging on my swing that my dad made for me.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 January 2023 source ↗

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Mariella Frostrup

During the first three months of the first lockdown. I was at home with my family and I was such a cliche: I was baking sourdough, making my own granola. It was an idyllic time.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2023 source ↗

Shirley Ballas English ballroom dancer

When I found out that I was having my baby. They told me I was having a little girl and I named it Elizabeth. Then, when the baby was born it was my beautiful boy, Mark.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 June 2018 source ↗

Cecile Richards

January 15, 1991. Walking up Congress Avenue in Austin, with thousands of others, to see Mom sworn in as governor of Texas.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2018 source ↗

Cynthia Nixon American actress and politician

Now. I feel wiser and calmer than I’ve ever been.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 April 2017 source ↗