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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

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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.

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Esther Rantzen
Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
Maybe I should have agreed to take the job of controller of BBC One when Bill Cotton offered it to me. I do feel a wimp; I would have been the first woman in the job.What do you consider your greatest achievement? I don’t really claim credit, I hope, for helping to launch Childline and the Silver Line and Silver Stories. It is an achievement that they all exist, but that is down to their amazing teams.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 February 2024 source ↗

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Juliet Stevenson
I would find a much better way of looking after my mum in her last three years of dementia. I did my best, but it was incredibly difficult to find the right kind of care unless you’ve got £3,000 a week to spend.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 May 2026 source ↗
Ice-T American rapper and actor
To be born independently wealthy.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 November 2015 source ↗
Courtney Pine British jazz musician
I would have spent more time practising and got a proper lawyer to sort out my first album contract.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 September 2022 source ↗

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