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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Max Whitlock
English artistic gymnast
Standing on the podium in Rio: winning a gold medal for the pommel was 100% the pinnacle of my career.
Benedict Cumberbatch
English actor
With the sun on my face and a beer in my hand, the morning after I had been in a car-jacking in South Africa.
Gary Numan
British musician
Now. I enjoy what I do for a living, the children are here and I am still happily married after 25 years.
Louis Smith
English artistic gymnast
When I was a kid with no responsibilities.
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One of my daughter's. She wrote a song for me called Strong Like You, and she played it at the opening of my last play, Mother Courage. Every mother there cried.
Getting ill. I am in remission [from rheumatoid arthritis], but there is no cure.
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