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The Guardian, Honest playlist, The Guardian, 21 December 2025 source ↗
Pavarotti’s Nessun Dorma. I’m a big sports fan and Italia 90 was such a massive part of my life when I’d just turned 17. That tune just builds and builds. I can imagine a massive coffin disappearing down while he’s singing. What better way to go?
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.
On The Good Ship Lollipop, by Shirley Temple.
Barbra Streisand’s Evergreen from A Star Is Born or You’ll Never Walk Alone from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel.
I am a shoe and bag freak. I shelled out for a Chanel handbag on eBay and it was still four figures!
On a flight to Newcastle, when we had terrible storms. The plane dropped quickly and the oxygen masks fell down. We had to land in Manchester.
Some of the neuroses of my 20s. I knew I had a great talent, but I thought it was unmarketable because I felt ugly.
Having a career that’s 29 years in.
Lesley Sharp, Julian Sands, Ethan Hawke, Emily Mortimer, Joseph Fiennes, Imelda Staunton
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