Craig Revel Horwood: What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?

The question

What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?

Originally asked

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.

Craig Revel Horwood

Australian-British choreographer and director

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

When I got my first professional dance job: West Side Story in Melbourne in 1983.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 December 2018 source ↗

Others on this question

View all 577 →

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 ↗

Carly Simon

Living in London in the late 60s—setting my hair with beer cans and shopping for shoes in Knightsbridge.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2010 source ↗

Richard Feynman Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965

It's made me a very happy man ever since.

Recorded Engineering and Science / Caltech Magazine, 1976 source ↗

Mel Brooks

Probably during my childhood growing up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

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

More from Craig Revel Horwood

View profile →

Question What is the worst job you have ever had? Craft & work

Potato-picking in my home town, Ballarat.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 December 2018 source ↗

Question What most recently moved you to tears? Identity & self

At my friend Billy’s funeral last month. He died suddenly in his sleep and was only 61.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 December 2018 source ↗

Question What song would you want played at your funeral? Death & what remains

Dancing Queen, by Abba.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 December 2018 source ↗

Also answered this

Kelly Macdonald, Lupita Nyong'o, June Brown, Kylie Minogue, Jenna Coleman, Johnny Flynn

Search the directory for somebody in particular.

Explore further

All time & hindsight questions
The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject

Report this answer

Others on this question

More from Craig Revel Horwood

More on time & hindsight

Also answered this

Explore further