Originally asked
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.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2009 source ↗
During the war - to a teenager, wartime is very exciting. And when there was no traffic, I could ride my bike about the lovely Yorkshire lanes with not a car in sight. And I'm very happy today because I'm not skint.
Genuinely – and my wife, Lee, knows this – dancing with Kevin Clifton on Strictly.
Now. I enjoy what I do for a living, the children are here and I am still happily married after 25 years.
When I am doing things that I feel I am not obliged to do.
The Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, who is 100 years old and still working.
My belief that saying it makes it happen.
When the coffee kicks in early in the morning and I’m on the couch with my dogs, reading the paper.
Dawn O’Porter, Chris Packham, Lisa Marie Presley, Frank Bowling, Ai Weiwei, Nadiya Hussain
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