The question
Who deserves an apology from you, and for what?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
To everyone I’ve bored.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 February 2024 source ↗
To my parents, for being such a bitch.
Today’s children and young people – we’ve let them down by not doing more to prevent the nature and climate crisis, and left them such a huge responsibility.
Our dog, Snowy. He’s a miniature poodle, and he’s needy and really irritating as a result.
Any sorrys I’ve needed to say have been said already.
When I started as a researcher in the BBC, I was working for an editor who was a self-confessed misogynist. He used to practise shooting by aiming his air gun at an aerosol can balanced just over my head. I made it a matter of pride not to flinch as the pellets whizzed by.
My hybrid car. Not glamorous, not fast, but indispensable.
Young, beautiful, deluded.
A teacher and a nightclub singer.
Alan Bates, Lord Arbuthnot and Nick Wallis for exposing the Post Office and Fujitsu and, let’s hope, for ensuring everyone is properly compensated.
Maybe I should have agreed to take the job of controller of BBC One when Bill Cotton offered it to me. I do feel a wimp; I would have been the first woman in the job.What do you consider your greatest achievement? I don’t really claim credit, I hope, for helping to launch Childline and the Silver Line and Silver Stories. It is an achievement that they all exist, but that is down to their amazing teams.
Dominic Cooper, Cynthia Nixon, Lionel Shriver, Emilia Fox, Aidan Gillen, Martin Freeman
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