Adrian Dunbar
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My first year of drama school: a sense of freedom, doing something I wanted to do and being with lovely people.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I'm nearly always happy.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 June 2014 source ↗
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With my late wife, Siân Busby, and our boys, Max and Simon, on assorted Welsh and English beaches, in sunshine and rain – especially when there was a Punch and Judy show on the prom.
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