Julie Hesmondhalgh
English actress and narrator
That the last general election didn’t take place later. We might have got rid of the Tories with a couple more weeks.
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Not getting into MI5.
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Missing out on a good education.
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Not yet being able to sing in a free Cuba.
My A-level results in 1998. I flunked my history A-level and lost my place at Cambridge. It broke my heart for years; now I’m really glad, because I pull out the whole “I went to a polytechnic” thing. But at the time for a teenager who was rather pleased with herself, it was absolutely devastating.
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A Chanel dress. I bought it with my first proper paycheck and it was ridiculously expensive. It is also hideous.
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A driving licence.
Relief. (Not like that.)
I went to a state school, so had to learn ancient Greek from scratch at Oxford.
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