Edwina Currie: What do you consider your greatest achievement?

What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Originally asked

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

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

Recorded Edwina Currie said elsewhere, not written here

As health minister, I brought in breast and cervical cancer screening. And in 1994 I called the first debate on gay rights for a quarter-century and we got the age of consent down to 18. There are pubs in Brighton where I still can’t pay for a drink.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 June 2017 source ↗

Others on this question

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du Beke English dancer and TV presenter

Convincing my wife to marry me and have children with me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 December 2019 source ↗

Nish Kumar British stand-up comedian and presenter

I learned how to play The Wind Cries Mary guitar solo.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 February 2019 source ↗

Gregg Wallace English broadcaster and writer

Raising my children, Tom and Libby, on my own.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 April 2022 source ↗

Chris Bonington

Everest the hard way in 1975: leading the expedition that succeeded where so many people had tried and failed. That was the most complex mountaineering challenge I ever faced. I spent hours at night in a little tent thinking about what the next problem would be and how to solve it.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 March 2025 source ↗