Jessica Hynes: What most recently made you cry?

Originally asked

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

A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.

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

Recorded Jessica Hynes said elsewhere, not written here

This morning, at the last school assembly of the year, because those tinies are so adorable.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 August 2016 source ↗

Others on this question

This morning, in a really great conversation with my dad.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 February 2026 source ↗

Maggie O'Farrell Irish-British novelist

Last week, while I was wet-wrapping my child’s chronic eczema.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 March 2023 source ↗

Watching the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin [about a gamer who died at 25 of a degenerative muscular disease]. I bawled.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗

John Cooper Clarke English poet

Singing Abide With Me at the funeral of Bruce Reynolds [ringleader of the Great Train Robbery], March 2013.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2013 source ↗