When were you happiest?

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Recorded Charles Dance said elsewhere, not written here
Realising what I wanted to do as a career – aged about 22.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 November 2009 source ↗

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Ranulph Fiennes English explorer
In 1982, having travelled for three years to do the first journey around the earth on its polar axis. Charles Burton and I were trying to get from the north pole down to our ship on the edge of the Arctic Sea. We had to float for three months on a diminishing ice floe. Eventually we had to leave the floe and try to get to the ship in canoes with skis under them. In the maze of broken ice we saw its masts on the horizon. That second was probably my happiest moment.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2008 source ↗
Shaun Ryder English singer
When I was 15 and starting my first job as a messenger boy at the post office, delivering telegrams.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 August 2017 source ↗
Stephen Merchant English comedian and actor
Watching Bruce Springsteen at Glastonbury. During Because The Night I actually shouted, "This is the greatest moment of my life!"
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 November 2013 source ↗
Adwoa Aboah British fashion model
On a walking safari in the middle of the Kenyan bush. I had no phone, no mirror, nothing, and I was really happy because I had no distractions.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 March 2019 source ↗

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