When were you happiest?

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

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Recorded Mel Brooks said elsewhere, not written here
Probably during my childhood growing up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2021 source ↗

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Cerys Matthews Welsh singer-songwriter
Now, by far. Old enough to know time’s short, young enough to use it.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 July 2016 source ↗
Ranulph Fiennes English explorer
In 1982, having travelled for three years to do the first journey around the earth on its polar axis. Charles Burton and I were trying to get from the north pole down to our ship on the edge of the Arctic Sea. We had to float for three months on a diminishing ice floe. Eventually we had to leave the floe and try to get to the ship in canoes with skis under them. In the maze of broken ice we saw its masts on the horizon. That second was probably my happiest moment.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2008 source ↗

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