Angela Hartnett
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Thinking about work because I’m responsible for people’s jobs.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Dreaming that I am about to go on stage or set but haven’t got the right script.
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Edwina Currie
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Anxiety. Usually the best response is to think hard about things, work up some solutions and then go to sleep.
Susan Calman
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Looking at conspiracy theories about JFK on the internet.
Robert Bathurst
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Rats scurrying in the roof. I won the last war but it’s only a matter of time.
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At the time, not landing the role of Lance-Corporal Jones in Dad’s Army, but it all worked out fine in the long run.
Diving in the Virgin Islands. I lost sight of the boat and had to swim to a tiny, deserted island. After a great deal of time, the rescue boat saw me waving for my life on the rocks.
Warmth and security.
Scrabbling about under dusty floorboards as an electrician in my early 20s.
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