The question
How would you sum yourself up in three words?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Young, beautiful, deluded.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 February 2024 source ↗
Very silly boy.
Hard-working, resilient, irritating.
Fizzy like lemonade.
Complicated, chaotic, messy.
My hybrid car. Not glamorous, not fast, but indispensable.
Like intoxication, sometimes followed by a hangover.
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.
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.
Andrew Ridgeley, Kate Humble, Jon Sopel, Romola Garai, Nuala McGovern, Jack Davenport
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