Marian Keyes
Irish writer
The people I worked with when I was in the final two years of my drinking.
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Nelson Mandela, because I didn’t do enough to stop apartheid. Now I have hopefully made amends.
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Monty Don
English horticulturist, broadcaster, and writer
My children. I was away an awful lot when they were little and not very good at being a father when I was around. I could have done better.
Busta Rhymes
American rapper
To my father, for the time that was lost when we weren’t getting along. We were able to reconcile a few months before he passed away five years ago.
Victoria Derbyshire
British broadcaster
I’m good at saying sorry – so no one, because I’ve already said it.
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Mozart’s clarinet concerto from the Out Of Africa soundtrack.
The double marathon on the last day of my 27 marathons in 27 days.
Living in Bangor, County Down, because my mum was still alive. She died when I was six.
With a blue plaque.
Jo Brand. She’s a fighter, she’s successful, she’s a straight talker; she cares about people.
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