Ralf Little: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

If you could edit your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

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

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

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

Recorded Ralf Little said elsewhere, not written here

I wouldn’t have tried to break up a fight when I was 17.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 February 2020 source ↗

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Alison Steadman British actress

I would never have smoked - I gave up years ago.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 January 2009 source ↗

Chris Bryant

I’d have reported the tutor who asked me to read an essay to him sitting on the toilet as he lay soaping himself in the bath.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2025 source ↗

Bryn Terfel Welsh bass-baritone singer

That moment in Bilbao in 2020, when I tried to cross the street and did a pirouette and suffered a dreadful break in my right leg, which means now I have 10 screws and a band in it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗

Rachel Whiteread English artist

I would have thought more about exercise and a healthy lifestyle in my 20s, 30s and 40s.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 December 2017 source ↗