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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Gabby Logan
Welsh TV/radio presenter and rhythmic gymnast
I am always happiest when my kids are on good form and we are having a lovely family dinner.
Benjamin Zephaniah
British poet and author
In 1985, in St Elizabeth, Jamaica, sitting on the veranda with my grandmother, people-watching, and listening to poetry and local gossip.
Simon Russell Beale
English actor
The morning after the opening of Hamlet in New York in 2000. The reviews were good and I actually punched the air – a very un-Simon Russell Beale thing to do.
Cycling around Martha’s Vineyard alone in the summer of 1976.
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View profile →The thought that I could be doing more: being more productive, doing more of the things that matter, and less of the things that don’t.
Less admin, emails, phone calls; more space to think, read and sleep.
I would care less about what people think.
Openness, curiosity and compassion.
I wanted to perform in some way, but I didn’t think it was viable. Teachers told me I should be a barrister, because I was always arguing with them.
If I am remembered at all that would be nice. I won’t be picky.
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