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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2017 source ↗
I had a gun shoved in my eyeball in New York by a crack dealer in the 1980s. I have also watched somebody next to me get shot in the head in a gun battle – that was in Jamaica in the early 1990s.
Near head-on collision driving from Oklahoma to California back in the 70s.
I was invited to Sharon Tate’s house the night she was murdered. I declined the invite due to jetlag.
A car crash in the Utah mountains in 2005. We were driving from Arizona to Salt Lake City to go to a basketball game and the car slipped on black ice and we skidded off the motorway, flipped over and rolled down a ravine. The police officer said it was the worst accident he’d seen in 18 years when nobody died.
Finding your place.
That will depend on when and how I die, but you couldn’t beat The Birdie Song to set the right tone.
Finding cucumber in things is a continual disappointment.
It’s a toss-up between organising a new filing system at Hammersmith & Fulham social services and relying on tips in the least popular restaurant in London to get through drama school.
As the father of Celtic’s all-time top goalscorer (that’s either of my kids).
Last week I saw a moorhen feeding her chicks, and became overwhelmed by the miracle of parenthood and maternal sacrifice. And I hadn’t even been drinking.
Martin Clunes, Anna Friel, Charles Dance, Noel Clarke, Madhur Jaffrey, Reggie Yates
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