Archie Panjabi
British actress
Mathew Varghese, an orthopaedic surgeon who runs India’s only polio ward in Delhi. He provides reconstructive surgery to help survivors walk.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What is the worst job you have done?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My mum. I just got back off holiday with her and we had the most fun. She’s game for whatever.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2017 source ↗
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Susan Greenfield
British scientist
An Italian neuroscientist called Rita Levi-Montalcini. She is now over 100. Under Mussolini she was forbidden from practising medicine because of the race laws. So she set up a lab in her basement, and the work she did there laid the foundations for her winning the Nobel prize.
Florence Welch
British singer
My little sister Grace. In all the ways in which I am not capable or grounded or calm, she is.
Alice Eve
British actress
Hillary Clinton, because it’s not easy being bullied and humiliated publicly and carrying on.
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A breakfast show that starts at noon.
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A table that used to belong to David Bowie: it was £13,000.
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