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

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Recorded Chris Bryant said elsewhere, not written here
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.

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

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Desmond Tutu Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
I sent off the letter. I probably made a technical mistake by giving it to a journalist before hearing from the Prime Minister because this journalist was working for a Sunday newspaper and gave it enormous press, and I think quite rightly the Prime Minister was annoyed that I had not given him the opportunity but never mind.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗
Burt Reynolds American actor
I wouldn’t have done the naked centrefold in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1972.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 November 2015 source ↗
Guy Pearce Australian actor
I wish I could go back and not be the anxious child that I was. I spent the first 25 years of my life just trying to survive human interaction.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2025 source ↗
Ronald Harwood South African playwright and novelist
The death of my wife: I’d happily have gone first.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 November 2016 source ↗

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