Sandi Toksvig: When were you happiest?

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.

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

Recorded Sandi Toksvig said elsewhere, not written here

Last Tuesday at 10 past three.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗

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Louis Walsh Irish music manager and television personality

I’m always happy. Ask Simon Cowell: he says if I had a tail, I’d wag it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 September 2017 source ↗

John Simpson English journalist

Recently, when I got out of hospital and into my own bed with my wife and 10-year-old son; we watched some crap television and life had never seemed better.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2016 source ↗

Yoko Ono Japanese artist and activist

When the war was over—whichever war that was.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 1995 source ↗

Rachel Whiteread English artist

When my children arrived.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 December 2017 source ↗

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