Mariella Frostrup: What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?

The question

What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?

Originally asked

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

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

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Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

During the first three months of the first lockdown. I was at home with my family and I was such a cliche: I was baking sourdough, making my own granola. It was an idyllic time.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2023 source ↗

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Bob Hoskins English actor

When the kids were babies.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 June 2011 source ↗

Craig Revel Horwood Australian-British choreographer and director

When I got my first professional dance job: West Side Story in Melbourne in 1983.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 December 2018 source ↗

John Lithgow

Probably the curtain call of my final performance when I played King Lear.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2024 source ↗

Ian McEwan British novelist and screenwriter

In my mid- to late-20s, in London, beginning to publish, living hand to mouth, having fun. Also now, when love and life and work have finally cohered.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 August 2018 source ↗