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When were you happiest?

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

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

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Read by field Everyone Arts and letters 46 Politics and public life 2 Sport 2
Read by age Any age In their thirties 9 In their forties 9 In their fifties 6 In their sixties 13 Seventy and beyond 13
Mariella Frostrup
During the first three months of the first lockdown. I was at home with my family and I was such a cliche: I was baking sourdough, making my own granola. It was an idyllic time.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2023 source ↗

Denise Welch
Now, because of my marriage and because since September 2019 I’ve been free of clinical depression.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 December 2023 source ↗

Keren Woodward
The last few years. There’s a beauty to getting to an age where you really don’t care about stuff that used to bother you.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 March 2024 source ↗

Caroline Lucas
Picnicking on the Downs with my family and dog – birds singing, sea sparkling, and mobile switched very firmly off.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 April 2024 source ↗

Andrew Ridgeley
When George, Shirlie [the Wham! backing singer, whom Ridgeley dated] and I were knocking about as teenagers.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 December 2024 source ↗

Carol Vorderman
I was happiest in every aspect of my life in the 1990s, when I was married to Paddy [King, a management consultant] and we had the two children and my mum lived with us, and Countdown was the biggest show on Channel 4.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 March 2026 source ↗

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