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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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The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 March 2026 source ↗
An eight-hour walk along the north Cornwall coast with my eldest children - aged eight and 10. Whoever has eight hours of solid conversation with their children? I loved every minute.
The last time I held my children and every time before that. They’ve been my salvation.
I try to be happy whenever I can. I don’t fret about what’s past and we don’t know if there will be a future, so I make as much as I can out of what’s here now.
When I was young and carefree, before I realised what the obstacles were that we face as black people. I was raised in a beautiful home with incredible parents. They allowed me to enjoy what it was to be a child.
I genuinely can’t remember crying.
Living in a campervan for a week with Timmy Mallett for a children’s TV show about 40 years ago.
Independent, curious and funny.
I still say yes to too many things.
Like I would die for them in a nanosecond.
A fighter pilot.
Rory Bremner, Steve Coogan, Enrique Iglesias, Viggo Mortensen, David Oyelowo, Shirley MacLaine
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