Richard Coles: What lesson has mattered most in your life? — FLAPSS

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What lesson has mattered most in your life?

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Richard Coles

British musician, writer, presenter and priest

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Don’t overcook pasta.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2023 source ↗

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To live your best life every day, because tomorrow isn’t promised.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2023 source ↗

Giovanna Fletcher

Block out the noise and trust your gut.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 February 2024 source ↗

To have the courage to fail.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 April 2024 source ↗

Chiwetel Ejiofor English actor

To do the very best you can and then let it go.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2024 source ↗

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Question As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself? Identity & self

A great composer. I wrote to Benjamin Britten to tell him this and that he was my third favourite composer. For some reason he didn’t feel moved to reply.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2023 source ↗

Question If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change? Failure & regret

My financial incompetence.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2023 source ↗

Question What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy? Time & hindsight

Technically, Ibiza 1990, because of the amount of ecstasy I’d taken.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2023 source ↗

Question When were you most embarrassed? Failure & regret

My paso doble on Strictly Come Dancing would be hard to beat.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2023 source ↗

Question How would you describe what love feels like to you? Relationships

The best thing in the world.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2023 source ↗

Question How would you want people to remember you? Death & what remains

With an international holiday.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2023 source ↗

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