Jeremy Vine: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

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

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

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

Recorded Jeremy Vine said elsewhere, not written here

I’d stop my teenage self worrying about how my life was going to pan out.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 August 2019 source ↗

Others on this question

Jessica Brown Findlay English actress

My password. [In 2014, Brown Findlay’s iCloud account was hacked.]

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 March 2021 source ↗

Moments of vanity, carelessness and unkindness.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 January 2026 source ↗

Jo Brand English entertainer

I’d have told a racist cabbie to go fuck himself, but I was scared about being chucked out on the street at 2am.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 September 2015 source ↗

Mo Gilligan British comedian

I don’t think I would change anything because it might not have got me here.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 November 2021 source ↗

As a good father.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 August 2019 source ↗

Joy and frustration.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 August 2019 source ↗

To be able to cycle from my home in Chiswick [west London] to the centre of London on a fully segregated lane.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 August 2019 source ↗

My penny farthing. It was £1,200. I’ve ridden it to Buckingham Palace and back.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 August 2019 source ↗

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