Joan Bakewell: What keeps you awake at night?

Originally asked

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

A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Joan Bakewell said elsewhere, not written here

Wondering if I've turned the gas off.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2013 source ↗

Others on this question

Jenna Coleman English actress

Until I got curtains recently, it was the orange street light.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 February 2019 source ↗

My son. He is a teenager.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 April 2014 source ↗

Fatima Bhutto Pakistani writer

That to-do list I am supposed to get through but can’t summon the energy for in these weird, distracted times.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 February 2021 source ↗

Niamh Cusack Irish actress

The world we are bequeathing to our children and our children’s children, both climatically and politically.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 October 2021 source ↗

A hymn called The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, Is Ended.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2013 source ↗

My student days at Cambridge.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2013 source ↗

Not being on Morecambe & Wise.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2013 source ↗

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