Philippa Perry
Psychotherapist and author
One written in 2057.
What song would you like played at your funeral?
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Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Rufus Wainwright’s Get Happy.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 May 2020 source ↗
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Fatima Bhutto
Pakistani writer
We don’t play songs at funerals where I’m from, but if they had to – Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean.
Zoe Ball
British TV and radio personality
That’s All by Mel Tormé.
Emily Mortimer
British actress
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.
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As an interesting, amusing father by my children.
Being exquisitely alive.
In the early 90s, in the Andes, caught in an atrocious storm above 20,000ft with three others. We were all in a very bad way. Some guys close to us perished; we were lucky.
A case of Chateau Margaux 59.
Father Christmas at a department store. The plaintive sadness of the children’s unrealistic requests was almost unbearable.
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