Mike Skinner: Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought? — FLAPSS

Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this standing prompt, with minor contractions and word-order variation.

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Recorded Mike Skinner said elsewhere, not written here

My microphone cost me six grand.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗

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Angela Hartnett English chef

When I first started at The Connaught, I bought a pair of antique diamond earrings at Fred Leighton in New York.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 August 2022 source ↗

Róisín Murphy

My car. I don’t even drive, but I bought a Toyota hybrid for my assistant.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 September 2023 source ↗

Alison Moyet English singer

A television. I don’t care for things. When I moved, I downsized and threw away most of my possessions.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 June 2017 source ↗

Bernadine Evaristo English author and academic

A pair of Russell & Bromley boots with studs. I have had them for eight years and wear them all the time.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2020 source ↗

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Question What is the worst job you have done? Craft & work

Cleaning toilets in a motorway service station.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗

Question What most recently made you cry? Identity & self

I cry all the time.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗

Question Which living person do you most admire, and why? Values & belief

Bill Drummond, Thomas Bangalter and Jay-Z.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗

Question If you could edit your past, what would you change? Failure & regret

I'd have not sung along with Yellow Submarine in that infant school hall.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗

Question When were you happiest? Time & hindsight

When I was a child and I got a new toy.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗

Question Who most deserves an apology from you, and why? Failure & regret

To my dad for not making it back to Birmingham to see him while I was in London doing The Streets.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗

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