Jason Byrne
Irish comedian
The James Bond theme tune Nobody Does It Better.
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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How close have you come to death?
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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We’ve Only Just Begun by The Carpenters.
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Jacob Collier
Musician and arranger
At the end of every show, I always blast September by Earth, Wind & Fire at full volume as people leave. It is the best song in the world and has a sense of total positivity, community, friendship, physicality and memorability. It feels like an extraordinary human experience, a sense of joy and celebration that we are lucky to be here at all. It reminds me why I am alive, and I’d like to give people that. The ultimate end to my big gig on earth!
Louis Theroux
British and American journalist and author
The Weird Weekends theme music: Mini Skirt by Esquivel.
Harriet Walter
English actress
I went to a funeral where they played Cheek To Cheek: Fred Astaire singing “Heaven. I’m in heaven… ” Everyone smiled. I’d like that.
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People close to me throwing me under a bus for a crust.
In my dreams: I’ll feel as if I am falling towards a white light and then suddenly I wake up.
I would be much more available for my brother when he was not well and try to understand more about mental health, which I didn’t know anything about at the time.
Dancing was in my bones from when I started ballet at two.
When I found out that I was having my baby. They told me I was having a little girl and I named it Elizabeth. Then, when the baby was born it was my beautiful boy, Mark.
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