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How close have you come to dying?Originally asked
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Emeli Sandé
British singer
On a camping holiday in Scotland when I was nine: I was in an inflatable dinghy that drifted out to sea. A lifeboat had to come.
Robert Peston
British journalist
Being driven across the Atlas Mountains in a snowstorm 25 years ago, by a local taxi driver who plainly put a lower premium on the advantages of living than me.
Mo Farah
British track and field athlete
When I was a kid, travelling from Ethiopia to the UK, the plane door opened, the oxygen masks came down and the plane did an emergency landing in Egypt.
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A tennis player.
Whenever I’m with my wife and I’m not preoccupied with work.
As a decent bloke.
The usual racist shit.
Cruelty, bullying, selfishness.
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