Emma Barnett: What do you consider your greatest achievement?

What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Originally asked

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

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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Emma Barnett said elsewhere, not written here

Keeping a relationship with the love of my life, for 16 years.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 February 2021 source ↗

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Lionel Shriver American author

A selection of single paragraphs that perfectly capture something I’ve thought or felt, even if it’s shameful or perverse.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 May 2016 source ↗

Laura Mvula English singer

My debut album.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 August 2014 source ↗

Maggie Aderin-Pocock British space scientist and science educator

Over the last eight years I have been privileged to see 250,000 schoolkids across the world and tell them my story – a kid with dyslexia from a broken home becoming a space scientist – and inspire them to do something they dream about.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 March 2016 source ↗

Sam Ryder

People told us Eurovision was like a poisoned chalice – to have been part of an amazing team that worked on changing the attitudes around that is really cool.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 August 2023 source ↗