The question
What would you most want to leave your children?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
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A sense of what’s right, a few quid and some nice paintings.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2025 source ↗
A sense of wonder.
A strong sense of being loved and a hopefulness for their life ahead.
A healthy planet.
I don’t have children. I will leave my nieces money because girls need money of their own. Anything to make women independent.
As someone who made people laugh, introduced them to good music and wasn’t too much of a pain in the arse.
The Radio 1 breakfast show was an embarrassing moment that lasted for nine months.
This was said about me in a Radio 1 focus group: “I don’t pay my licence fee to hear scummy northerners.”
Fairly decent bloke.
Working in a bottle factory, which lasted one day, and the Radio 1 breakfast show.
Having three great daughters, having been on the radio for nearly 50 years and not being dead.
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