Sara Cox
English broadcaster
My half-electric Volvo.
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What most recently made you cry?
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When were you happiest?
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What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
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A painting of the late actor Bille Brown by Australian artist Ben Quilty, to commemorate decades of fraternal and professional bonds.
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Julian Lloyd Webber
British cellist and conductor
My cello. At the time, in 1983, it was £192,500.
Chris Hoy
British track cyclist, 1994–2013
A road track car, a Porsche GT3. I’ve done the 24-hour race in Le Mans, which was a dream come true.
Jason Derulo
American singer and songwriter
A restaurant called Catch LA.
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When Adèle walked down the road at the end of the film Blue Is The Warmest Colour.
I still regularly read New Scientist to try to keep up with quantum theory and cosmological discoveries and so forth. And I read National Geographic—that’s not a plug.
During my Queensland childhood, on the days when I avoided the chlorine-infused shower gauntlet and being corralled into the deep end of the school pool.
"The love you take is equal to the love you make" – Lennon/McCartney.
You now have to address the fact that we might live in so-called wealthy countries at the expense of people who live in poor countries. Our wealth is maybe dependent on somebody else from the poverty side of the equation, suffering on our behalf.
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