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After Emmerdale, babysitting. I freaked out – I couldn’t believe people put me in charge of their children.
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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Which book are you ashamed not to have read?
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When I was a kid I had a Saturday job in the stockroom of a supermarket. I remember everything in there being a little bit grubby and slightly sticky. We’d do things like play rugby with a swiss roll. I think of it every time I go shopping.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 November 2024 source ↗
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Audiobooks have allowed me to catch up on the books I always claimed to have read anyway. On long journeys I’ll often be listening to Kafka, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn. It’s a fantastic way to pass time and often means I’ll turn up at the gig really depressed. So it’s a win-win.
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