When were you happiest?

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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

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The two times I've been pregnant. With Jessie, I lay on a sofa and watched The West Wing for nine months.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 November 2008 source ↗

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Ranulph Fiennes English explorer
In 1982, having travelled for three years to do the first journey around the earth on its polar axis. Charles Burton and I were trying to get from the north pole down to our ship on the edge of the Arctic Sea. We had to float for three months on a diminishing ice floe. Eventually we had to leave the floe and try to get to the ship in canoes with skis under them. In the maze of broken ice we saw its masts on the horizon. That second was probably my happiest moment.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2008 source ↗
John Waters American filmmaker
Chasing after fire engines as a child with my dad and watching neighbours' houses burn to the ground.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2008 source ↗
Dermot O'Leary British-Irish television presenter
On Curracloe beach with my family in Wexford, circa 1980, after a swim.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 September 2014 source ↗

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