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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 November 2017 source ↗
Pittsford, New York, writing my first book when our kids were small, riding my bike to work because we only had one car…that feeling of being needed and loved and vitally involved in something artistic that I didn’t fully understand, everything still lying ahead of us.
At the birth of my son, Joel, and then equally, last June, when my first grandchild, Rory, was born.
I’m happy whenever I’m with my wife, Allegra.
Whenever I’m with my kids.
Like somebody’s painted the world a different colour.
One of those robot vacuum cleaners.
Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life.
At the end of Professor Marston & The Wonder Women.
Downton Abbey fans for ruining Christmas in 2012.
Jobs that I saw on television, until I realised they were all played by actors – then I wanted to be an actor.
Martin Kemp, Angela Griffin, Charlotte Church, Maxine Peake, Alan Cumming, Patricia Hodge
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