The question
What most recently moved you to tears?Originally asked
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Meeting Richard Ratcliffe outside the Foreign Office during his hunger strike to try to get action to free Nazanin. I’m moved by the loyalty and strength of that couple and their family.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 January 2022 source ↗
Three days ago. I don’t even know why. Sometimes I just feel emotional about how vulnerable humans are.
When I spilled hot fat on my hand a couple of weeks ago.
Watching Gone With The Wind for the 100th time.
I often cry when people do things well, like on Britain’s Got Talent; I cried at the old ladies doing finger knitting.
When I was a 26-year-old news correspondent, the head of BBC news gathering, Chris Cramer, refused to let me take up a six-month attachment on the foreign affairs programme Correspondent. He said: “I think it’s too soon; you could do it later.” He’d never have said that to a man.
My maternal grandmother, who lived with us for many years. I was a moody teenager and sometimes impatient and rude. Yet she was the person I feel I’m most like. I really miss her.
On stage, interviewing one of my heroes, Paul McCartney, at the Royal Festival Hall last November.
A 50-metre lido that was always empty when I went.
Zack Polanski, Anita Rani, Clive Myrie, Donny Osmond, Ray Winstone, Ralph Steadman
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