Jack Davenport: How close have you come to dying?

The question

How close have you come to dying?

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

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Jack Davenport

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

About five years ago, a half-tonne tree branch fell and missed me by three feet.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 March 2024 source ↗

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Bryan Adams Canadian singer-songwriter and musician

Skydiving: the parachute got tangled around my legs.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 December 2022 source ↗

Ray Mears British woodsman and TV presenter

In a helicopter crash in Wyoming in 2005. My cameraman broke his back and both legs; the pilot broke his back. The helicopter didn’t catch fire, so I’m still here today.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 September 2016 source ↗

Bobbi Brown

When I got hit by a car in my home town.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 October 2025 source ↗

Jon Snow

When interviewing Idi Amin of Uganda in 1975, he shouted: “We have ways of dealing with people like you.”

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 March 2024 source ↗