Which living person do you most admire, and why?

Originally asked

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

The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.

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

Recorded Esther Rantzen said elsewhere, not written here
Alan Bates, Lord Arbuthnot and Nick Wallis for exposing the Post Office and Fujitsu and, let’s hope, for ensuring everyone is properly compensated.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 February 2024 source ↗

Others on this question

View all 410 →
Nancy Pelosi
My husband, Paul, who is an enabler of the exuberance of his wife and five kids.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2019 source ↗
Gillian Anderson American actress and writer
Obama, because against all odds, he's getting the job done with grace and integrity.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 March 2011 source ↗

More from Esther Rantzen

View profile →
Question If you could edit your past, what would you change? Failure & regret
Maybe I should have agreed to take the job of controller of BBC One when Bill Cotton offered it to me. I do feel a wimp; I would have been the first woman in the job.What do you consider your greatest achievement? I don’t really claim credit, I hope, for helping to launch Childline and the Silver Line and Silver Stories. It is an achievement that they all exist, but that is down to their amazing teams.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 February 2024 source ↗

More on values & belief

Also answered this

Marianne Faithfull, kd lang, Julien Macdonald, Midge Ure, Mohamed ElBaradei, Corinne Bailey Rae

Search the directory for somebody in particular.

Explore further

Report this answer