Rory Bremner: When were you happiest?

When were you happiest?

Originally asked

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

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

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

Recorded Rory Bremner said elsewhere, not written here

Making Bremner, Bird And Fortune: fulfilled at work, happy at home with two young children.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 March 2014 source ↗

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Meg Rosoff American novelist

Swimming in the North Sea at midnight, surrounded by phosphorescence.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2013 source ↗

Danny Cipriani England rugby union player

When I am playing rugby.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 March 2010 source ↗

Dan Stevens English actor

My wedding day, eight years ago.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 November 2017 source ↗

Nicholson Baker Contemporary American novelist and writer

When we had children at home. But recently I finished a book about old secrets that I’ve been working on for a long time, and when I was done, I felt a gigantic, joyful relief in having escaped from the corn maze of remembered facts in which I’d been wandering for so long.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 August 2020 source ↗