The question
What most recently moved you to tears?Originally asked
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Meeting Richard Ratcliffe outside the Foreign Office during his hunger strike to try to get action to free Nazanin. I’m moved by the loyalty and strength of that couple and their family.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 January 2022 source ↗
Last week, while I was wet-wrapping my child’s chronic eczema.
I genuinely can’t remember crying.
I cry if one of the kids says something profound without knowing it; I cry at adverts; I cry at Strictly Come Dancing.
Yesterday, talking about my brother, who passed away.
A 50-metre lido that was always empty when I went.
On stage, interviewing one of my heroes, Paul McCartney, at the Royal Festival Hall last November.
My maternal grandmother, who lived with us for many years. I was a moody teenager and sometimes impatient and rude. Yet she was the person I feel I’m most like. I really miss her.
When I was a 26-year-old news correspondent, the head of BBC news gathering, Chris Cramer, refused to let me take up a six-month attachment on the foreign affairs programme Correspondent. He said: “I think it’s too soon; you could do it later.” He’d never have said that to a man.
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