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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.
Last summer, swimming in a waterfall in Cumbria with my daughters.
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Alexander Armstrong
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Now. Although I am on tour and I will be deliriously happy when that finishes, because I'll be back home.
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Interrupting or talking over people. As a stammerer, I am particularly alert to this.
To keep going and never give up, and to enjoy it to the absolute full because, at any moment, the curtain can fall.
I started stammering badly the first time I was on live radio, on Woman’s Hour on Radio 4. When I think about it now it brings me out in a cold sweat.
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