Terence Conran
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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.
Playing the Cowardly Lion in our fourth-grade production of The Wizard of Oz. Thank you, Mr. Riccobono.
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Lesley Sharp
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When I am up in the air and about to hit the water, literally and metaphorically.
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Technically, Ibiza 1990, because of the amount of ecstasy I’d taken.
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