Originally asked
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This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 February 2021 source ↗
A great composer. I wrote to Benjamin Britten to tell him this and that he was my third favourite composer. For some reason he didn’t feel moved to reply.
I wanted to play for Arsenal. When I have a kick-around with my boy, I still feel as if someone’s going to spot me.
I always wanted to be a rapper.
Golfer, priest, police officer, teacher and, after going to the movies, actor.
Not being able to have a baby for two and a half years. Lots of people say it made me a better person; I think it made me worse. You go to a very dark place with your friends because they are having kids, and you want to be happy for them but you’re not.
Our son. And ideas for Woman’s Hour, or businesses to start.
A wedding, in 2012.
A cure for endometriosis.
Very hard, meaningful kisses.
Keeping a relationship with the love of my life, for 16 years.
Gloria Steinem, Desmond Tutu, Malcolm Gladwell, Jess Phillips, Zack Polanski, Robert Peston
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