Bianca Jagger: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

If you could edit your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

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

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

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

Recorded Bianca Jagger said elsewhere, not written here

I sometimes wish I had had the courage to be a politician – but I made the decision to be a human rights defender instead. I realised I cannot be both at the same time, because they may be incompatible.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 March 2020 source ↗

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Jason Donovan

My relationship with drugs.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2024 source ↗

Mary McCartney English photographer and cookbook author

Through food, I’ve become more interested in the protection of soil, the way things are grown, and biodiversity. I’d have become a quantum physicist!

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 February 2022 source ↗

Jack Whitehall English comedian, actor, presenter and writer

All of my hairstyles from the age of 16 to 25.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 April 2023 source ↗

Siri Hustvedt American novelist, essayist, poet

I would have articulated aloud the comments I too often suppressed out of deference to arrogant, condescending, sexist bores.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 August 2017 source ↗

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Question Who most deserves an apology from you, and why? Failure & regret

To my daughter, because she felt that I spent too much time saving other children. I would go to war zones and travel the world for human rights work, and she was missing me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 March 2020 source ↗