Lucy Worsley: When were you happiest?

Originally asked

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.

Recorded Lucy Worsley said elsewhere, not written here

I think you can be happy every day, if you are in the flow.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2017 source ↗

Others on this question

Clive Myrie British journalist, newsreader, and presenter

Whenever I’m with my wife and I’m not preoccupied with work.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 June 2024 source ↗

Craig Revel Horwood Australian-British choreographer and director

When I got my first professional dance job: West Side Story in Melbourne in 1983.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 December 2018 source ↗

Chris Packham English naturalist

Fourteen. Dew-soaked plimsolls, flying my kestrel before school.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 February 2014 source ↗

Bobby Womack American singer-songwriter

When I was just singing with my brothers in our house. I was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 November 2012 source ↗

To my brother. When he was a small boy, I made him urinate on an electric fence to see if liquid could really transmit electricity.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2017 source ↗

That I am not a chorus girl in a West End musical.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2017 source ↗

A spy, a witch and a nun.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2017 source ↗

In my teens, peeling garlic to make pie filling in a butcher’s shop.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2017 source ↗

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