The question
What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Strictly. I went into it thinking I would last two weeks!
The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 November 2025 source ↗
I ran 10k once. I’ve got a medal.
Earning a living as an actor for 40 years.
My PE With Joe work, over the last weeks.
My books. There’s no greater feeling than a disabled child coming up to me and saying, “I’ve never seen myself in a book before.”
Hard-working, resilient, irritating.
I’m judgmental.
A lot of awful gigs. You can’t become a successful comedian without dying on your arse more times than you can remember.
When I was losing my sight, I couldn’t see where I was going, and I went into an undertaker’s thinking it was a barber’s. I asked the undertaker whether he had many waiting.
To Kill a Mockingbird – I was meant to read it for an exam and I didn’t and I cheated. I was allowed to use a laptop to type my answers because I couldn’t see my writing, so I hid an electronic copy of the book on the laptop.
Loud and noisy.
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