Nuala McGovern: What do you consider your greatest achievement?

The question

What do you consider your greatest achievement?

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Nuala McGovern

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In the Pet Shop Boys song Being Boring they’ve a great line that says “I never dreamed that I would get to be the creature that I always meant to be”. And I feel I am, so that’s great.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 November 2025 source ↗

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Russell Mael

Watching all of Fellini’s movies one summer.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 May 2025 source ↗

Richard Feynman Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965

There was no importance to what I was doing, but ultimately there was. The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling plate.

Recorded Excerpt from “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman”, Engineering and Science / Caltech Magazine, 1985 source ↗

Una Stubbs British actress, television personality, and dancer

Bringing up my three sons.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2016 source ↗

Kiell Smith-Bynoe

Making my mum proud.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2023 source ↗