Roger Allam: What keeps you awake at night?

What keeps you awake at night?

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

A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.

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

Recorded Roger Allam said elsewhere, not written here

The third or fourth glass of wine.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2017 source ↗

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Mellody Hobson Co-chief executive and president of Ariel Investments

I wrote about this in our first quarter client letter, actually, the concept of polycrisis, and I talked about the fact that my belief is that we've all become firefighters.

Recorded Kathleen J. McInnis, Smart Women, Smart Power podcast, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 28 August 2024 source ↗

Clive Myrie British journalist, newsreader, and presenter

Other people’s suffering.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 June 2024 source ↗

Imelda Staunton English actress and singer

Snoring – and it's not me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 June 2013 source ↗

Omid Djalili British stand-up comedian and actor

Boothby Graffoe calling up to pester me into promoting his new album, available on Amazon and iTunes.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗

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Question What do you consider your greatest achievement? Craft & work

I was very proud of doing Falstaff, because it seemed to go well.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2017 source ↗

Question What most recently made you cry? Identity & self

Reading aloud the last two pages of a book about Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell. It was about his relationship with his cat, and a letter to a friend whose dog had died. It’s about letting the unexpected happen to you, and how that can really be what life is about.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2017 source ↗