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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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 December 2011 source ↗
When I was about to embark on filming The Lord Of The Rings, prior to any kind of fame or notoriety, full of hope and dreams, and excitement of the adventures ahead.
During the first three months of the first lockdown. I was at home with my family and I was such a cliche: I was baking sourdough, making my own granola. It was an idyllic time.
When I lived with my grandmother in Trinidad, before I came to England to live with my mother in Newcastle at the age of seven.
In my first bedsit when I went to art college in Leeds. It was a hideous basement, but I loved the freedom.
My first business, People's Place, went bankrupt in the mid-70s.
Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute. The work he and the team are doing to reduce extreme poverty is phenomenal.
Heston Blumenthal, Rick Stein, Douglas Stuart, Christian Louboutin, Katharine Hamnett, Tamara Mellon
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