Mike Skinner
English rapper
I'd like to write my funeral song.
What song would you like played at your funeral?
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What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West).
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Nicholas Parsons
English actor, straight man and presenter
My wife says the Minute Waltz.
Rick Astley
Singer, songwriter and radio presenter
I’d like to go all melodramatic and have Vide cor Meum by Patrick Cassidy from Kingdom Of Heaven. It’s also in another Ridley Scott movie, Hannibal. It’s an operatic piece and absolutely amazing. Obviously Ridley Scott thinks so, too..
Nicola Walker
British actress
Funerals are for the people left behind, so I don’t mind.
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View profile →Lack of magnesium.
As an accomplished dancer and tennis player, because I do neither, so my loved ones would be very confused.
My mother, Hannah: nearly 82, mother of four, homemaker, retired GP and knitter extraordinaire.
A bed from Savoir Beds. People spend loads of money on cars, but spend more of their lives sleeping than driving. The maths is wrong, if you ask me.
The Guardian’s review of my book.
I ran 10k once. I’ve got a medal.
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