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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 June 2018 source ↗
Being charged by a white rhino on a walking safari. It came running towards us and I froze, which is the right thing to do. If it had hit us, it would have been goodnight.
I’m convinced heartache almost killed me a few years ago.
Watching Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal.
I’ve dodged a couple of bullets in dodgy war zones, but I suspect the closest I’ve come to death was a reckless, drunken brush with a waltzer at a student funfair. It nearly chopped me in half.
Being completely still.
With my late wife, Siân Busby, and our boys, Max and Simon, on assorted Welsh and English beaches, in sunshine and rain – especially when there was a Punch and Judy show on the prom.
Cleaning the freezer room at Bejam as a Saturday job, aged 13.
A Savile Row suit. Never again. Although I love it, I still feel guilty about what it cost.
I am rarely disappointed. I try to make the best of things.
Maybe I’m Amazed, by Paul McCartney.
Zack Polanski, Sadiq Khan, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Jon Sopel, Edwina Currie, John Lewis
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