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An emergency landing in a snow storm in Philadelphia.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2008 source ↗
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Nicola Walker
British actress
Swimming off the north Cornish coast eight years ago. I remember thinking, “Why did they teach you how to inflate your pyjamas in life-saving classes at school, when they could have just told you what to do in a riptide?”
Jeremy Deller
English artist
Three squaddies on a train in 1995.
Carl Barât
English musician
Probably when I didn’t sleep for a week on drugs in 2009. I’d had a lot of meth and my heart felt like it was giving out. I remember climbing over balconies really high up, and I thought I was going to die, until I eventually fell asleep in someone’s garden.
Bryan Adams
Canadian singer-songwriter and musician
Skydiving: the parachute got tangled around my legs.
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