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Getting my 21-year-old knees back.
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What one change would most improve the quality of your daily life?Originally asked
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Samuel West
British actor, theatre director, and narrator
Decent arts funding.
Lesley Sharp
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A home on the shores of Lake Como.
My mum looks after our kids all the time, but on the very few weeks she takes time off, doing it all is a big juggle. My mum is a combination of Mary Poppins and Angela Davis, so I’d clone her.
Abigail Breslin
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Ten more cats (I've got two).
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A tractor, 12 years ago. Bright yellow and still brilliant.
My children. I was away an awful lot when they were little and not very good at being a father when I was around. I could have done better.
At the time, losing our business, home and all our possessions in 1991 after the failure of our jewellery company. But if that had not happened then other good things would not have happened, either.
Despite a stroke, cancer as a child and various dramas with chainsaws and tractors, the closest was probably when I choked on a lamb chop 25 years ago. Sarah performed the Heimlich manoeuvre and the lamb shot out.
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