Philippa Dunne: What is your greatest fear?

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

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

Recorded Philippa Dunne said elsewhere, not written here

I’ve a phobia of statues. It does go back to childhood. My parents brought me to look at a French church late at night. Since then I can’t deal with them.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 June 2026 source ↗

Others on this question

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Gino D'Acampo Italian-British celebrity chef and media personality

Overcooking pasta for my Italian family in Napoli – they would kill me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2022 source ↗

Malala Yousafzai Education campaigner; co-founder of the Malala Fund; United Nations Messenger of Peace

Losing my family. And fear that the world won't become a better place.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2019 source ↗

Stephanie Beacham

Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2025 source ↗

Scott Mills English radio DJ and television presenter

Heights. For Children in Need, I had to abseil off the Orbit in the Olympic Park. It was the most terrifying thing I’ve done.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 October 2022 source ↗