Stephen Graham: How close have you come to death?

Originally asked

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

A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.

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

Recorded Stephen Graham said elsewhere, not written here

I was knocked over by a taxi in Liverpool when I was seven. And I fell off the seventh storey of a car park when I was 10 and broke both legs, my collarbone and my arm.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 April 2018 source ↗

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Clara Amfo Broadcaster

I choked on a hard-boiled lemon sweet when I was 13. My brother Sam saved me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 August 2020 source ↗

Gary Numan British musician

I was an air display pilot for 15 years, and watched most of my friends die in crashes. When the children came along, I got out of it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 July 2017 source ↗

David Jason English actor

Diving in the Virgin Islands. I lost sight of the boat and had to swim to a tiny, deserted island. After a great deal of time, the rescue boat saw me waving for my life on the rocks.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 May 2021 source ↗

Alison Moyet English singer

When I was doing my gold swimming badge. I had to get undressed in a swimming pool and had forgotten my gym kit, so the teacher gave me a kit two sizes too small. In the water, I got my arms up over my head to get the shirt off and they locked. I sank to the bottom of the pool and sat there until a girl jumped in and dragged me back up again.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 June 2017 source ↗