Sally Lindsay: What most recently made you cry?

What most recently made you cry?

Originally asked

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

A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.

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

Recorded Sally Lindsay said elsewhere, not written here

I am a perimenopausal woman, so about two minutes ago, at a dog being adopted on Insta.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 August 2025 source ↗

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Jenna Coleman English actress

I cry when I am overtired.

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

Craig Revel Horwood Australian-British choreographer and director

At my friend Billy’s funeral last month. He died suddenly in his sleep and was only 61.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 December 2018 source ↗

Ed Harris American actor and director

Couple of days ago, reading a thank-you note my parents had left after we celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in Wyoming.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 August 2007 source ↗

Roger Allam English actor

Reading aloud the last two pages of a book about Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell. It was about his relationship with his cat, and a letter to a friend whose dog had died. It’s about letting the unexpected happen to you, and how that can really be what life is about.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2017 source ↗

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So many different types. When I first met my husband, electric and vital. When I first held my boys in my arms, an overwhelming flood of defiant protection and magic.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 August 2025 source ↗