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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

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

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

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Mo Gilligan British comedian
I don’t think I would change anything because it might not have got me here.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 November 2021 source ↗
Krishnan Guru-Murthy British journalist
I’d have been there on the spot for every major news story I’ve talked about in the studio, at the time it happened.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 January 2021 source ↗
Björn Ulvaeus Swedish musician
My surname. You have no idea how many versions I’ve read and heard. It was especially irritating during my Abba years. You can imagine someone calling our hotel and saying: “I’d like to speak to one of the guys in Abba.” Who do you think the receptionist called, Andersson or Ulvaeus?
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2020 source ↗

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Question Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them? Values & belief
My mum, for the way that she brought up her three children and managed to make her money work. She worked as a cleaner for all these families we went to church with. She would cycle there with my little sister on the back of her bike – we didn’t have a car. She had an amazing mind for planning and organising so that we got to do ballet, we went to Brownies.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2023 source ↗

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