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The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 March 2024 source ↗
We used to have one of those gat guns that shot pellets. My friend pretty much had the thing at point-blank range to my temple. It popped out and completed its trajectory about a millimetre from my head.
How long have you got? I have written a memoir and the subtitle is Seventeen Brushes with Death.
A horse-riding accident when I was about 15.
Being charged by a white rhino on a walking safari. It came running towards us and I froze, which is the right thing to do. If it had hit us, it would have been goodnight.
An understanding that kindness is the answer.
Your heart walking around outside your body.
Not a child, which was short-sighted of me.
Letting down the people I love.
Bicycle courier: it was literally dicing with death on a minute-to-minute basis for 12 hours a day. It was terrifying and exhausting.
Anyone who speaks truth to power at the risk of their own safety.
Tess Daly, Chris Hoy, Paul O'Grady, Adeel Akhtar, Gloria Steinem, Noah Harari
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