Robert Glenister
English actor
That I’m still here.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The double marathon on the last day of my 27 marathons in 27 days.
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Doing the spacewalk to fix a solar panel at the furthest edge of the ISS. You have no idea if you are going to get a chance to do a spacewalk when you go into space. I was fortunate. There’s a real juxtaposition between floating, completely serene and calm, looking down at Earth and the universe, and being aware that you are in this hostile environment.
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My relationship.
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Jo Brand. She’s a fighter, she’s successful, she’s a straight talker; she cares about people.
Nelson Mandela, because I didn’t do enough to stop apartheid. Now I have hopefully made amends.
Living in Bangor, County Down, because my mum was still alive. She died when I was six.
The UK voting for us to stay in Europe on 23 June.
Mozart’s clarinet concerto from the Out Of Africa soundtrack.
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