Laura Mvula
English singer
To Be Young, Gifted And Black, by Nina Simone.
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Another One Bites The Dust.
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Kathleen Turner
American actress
One of my daughter's. She wrote a song for me called Strong Like You, and she played it at the opening of my last play, Mother Courage. Every mother there cried.
Patricia Hodge
English actress
One of my favourite songs is Being Alive, from Company by Stephen Sondheim, but it would hardly be appropriate.
Gary Barlow
British singer
The cancan. It’s celebratory and it would demonstrate the ridiculousness of this life.
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A couple of days ago, saying goodbye to my children.
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Every job I don’t get.
On a caravan site on a farm in the Brecon Beacons when I was a kid. I have three sisters and every year we met family friends with kids the same age. We would go to the river and make rope swings and build dens. It was very Enid Blyton.
When I was 17, I worked in a warehouse in Rotherham doing an audit of truck parts. I counted nuts and bolts all day long.
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