Louis Smith: What has been your biggest disappointment?

What has been your biggest disappointment?

Originally asked

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

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Recorded Louis Smith said elsewhere, not written here

Not taking more time out from work for holidays.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 July 2013 source ↗

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Camille Paglia American feminist academic and critic

The shocking decline of artistic quality in Hollywood movies over the past 15 years.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 April 2008 source ↗

Simon Mayo English radio presenter and author

Feeling as though I had to leave Radio 2 to get my life back on track. I had every intention of being David Jacobs or Brian Matthew and going on until I was 127, but it didn’t turn out like that.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 August 2020 source ↗

Samira Ahmed British journalist and writer

When I was a 26-year-old news correspondent, the head of BBC news gathering, Chris Cramer, refused to let me take up a six-month attachment on the foreign affairs programme Correspondent. He said: “I think it’s too soon; you could do it later.” He’d never have said that to a man.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 January 2022 source ↗

Roger Allam English actor