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

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

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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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On tour during Christmas vacation at Cambridge with its European Theatre Group, playing Shakespeare. I knew it was the best time of my life.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 July 2025 source ↗

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Marianne Faithfull English singer and actress

When I was a child and a teenager, before I got discovered.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2011 source ↗

Erin O'Connor English model

French kissing on Tower Bridge under a full moon in the wee small hours.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2008 source ↗

Sally Mann Photographer

On the island of Bequia—one summer, out of the blue, a benefactor (thank you, Charlene) flew our entire family there and put us up in a cliffside house that was a weird mixture of Gaudí and Fred Flintstone and where we went to sleep at eight and got up at five. In between we read, swam, hiked, and unknowingly enjoyed the last moment before the irrevocable shear of adolescence set in.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2018 source ↗

Kathleen Turner American actress