Mo Farah: How close have you come to death?

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

A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.

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

Recorded Mo Farah said elsewhere, not written here

When I was a kid, travelling from Ethiopia to the UK, the plane door opened, the oxygen masks came down and the plane did an emergency landing in Egypt.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2019 source ↗

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Lesley Sharp British actress

I got run over when I was three. I ran across a road in Manchester and was hit by a car. I only had concussion, but I could have died.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 May 2021 source ↗

Beverley Knight Singer and stage actor

On a flight to Newcastle, when we had terrible storms. The plane dropped quickly and the oxygen masks fell down. We had to land in Manchester.

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

Noel Clarke English actor and filmmaker

A car crash in the Utah mountains in 2005. We were driving from Arizona to Salt Lake City to go to a basketball game and the car slipped on black ice and we skidded off the motorway, flipped over and rolled down a ravine. The police officer said it was the worst accident he’d seen in 18 years when nobody died.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 April 2021 source ↗

Noah Harari Israeli historian and philosopher