Louis Smith
English artistic gymnast
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What keeps you awake at night?
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Identity & self
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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Our son. And ideas for Woman’s Hour, or businesses to start.
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Ray Mears
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The sound of nightingales, but it is the most lovely sound. If someone said it was an elf playing a flute, I would believe them.
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British novelist and screenwriter
The BBC World Service followed by the dawn chorus.
Steffi Graf
German tennis player
Andre, the kids, my foundation and sometimes the dogs.
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Not being able to have a baby for two and a half years. Lots of people say it made me a better person; I think it made me worse. You go to a very dark place with your friends because they are having kids, and you want to be happy for them but you’re not.
Keeping a relationship with the love of my life, for 16 years.
A cure for endometriosis.
A wedding, in 2012.
Very hard, meaningful kisses.
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