Matthew Kelly: What has been your biggest disappointment?

Originally asked

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

This exact question recurs in The Guardian's institutional Q&A pool.

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

Recorded Matthew Kelly said elsewhere, not written here

I didn’t get a part in a TV series for a writer that I’ve always wanted to work with, but I wasn’t right for it, if I’m truly honest.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 February 2026 source ↗

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I thought I’d be smarter by now.

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The distribution of Copying Beethoven in the US.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 August 2007 source ↗