Alexander Armstrong: What does love feel like? — FLAPSS

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What does love feel like?

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Alexander Armstrong

English actor, comedian, broadcaster and singer

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Entirely comfortable and warm – the edge of it can be white heat, but the best kind is room temperature.

Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 November 2010 source ↗

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Felicity Jones British actress

Peaceful and joyful.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 May 2023 source ↗

Irvine Welsh Scottish novelist

When you can barely stand to look at someone without turning away to catch your breath.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 December 2016 source ↗

John Waters American filmmaker

A wonderful, terribly exciting disease.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2008 source ↗

Holding a large and fragile glass object in a very dangerous environment.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 April 2025 source ↗

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Question What do you value most in your friends? Relationships

Make friends and do all you can to keep them. And try to be useful.

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Question Which writers or artists most influenced your work? Taste & recommendation

The TV producer Jimmy Mulville has been an incredible mentor.

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Question Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought? Money & investment

A Maserati.

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Question What song would you like played at your funeral? Death & what remains

I’d have Nunc Dimittis in G, followed by Gute Nacht and Be Thou My Vision.

Recorded Rob McGibbon, The Definite Article, Rob McGibbon, 29 December 2012 source ↗

Question What did you want to be when you were growing up? Identity & self

When I was little I wanted to be a conductor. I knew there was a man in a smart coat who waved his arms around at the opera and I thought: "There's the job for me."

Recorded Laura Potter, This much I know, The Guardian, 13 March 2010 source ↗

Question What is the trait you most deplore in others? Values & belief

Bad manners, which extends from people dropping litter to people trawling the hell out of the oceans.

Recorded Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 November 2010 source ↗

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