Krishnan Guru-Murthy: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

The question

Originally asked

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

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Krishnan Guru-Murthy

British journalist

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I’d have been there on the spot for every major news story I’ve talked about in the studio, at the time it happened.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 January 2021 source ↗

Others on this question

Joanne Froggatt English actress

I’d change my mindset and not be so hard on myself, and impart the knowledge that other people’s intentions aren’t always as well-meaning as my own.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 February 2019 source ↗

Joan Jett American singer, songwriter and guitarist

I don’t think I’d change anything: the bad forms you more than the good.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 November 2020 source ↗

Jo Brand English entertainer

I’d have told a racist cabbie to go fuck himself, but I was scared about being chucked out on the street at 2am.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 September 2015 source ↗

Marie Kondo Japanese organizing consultant, author, and television show host

I don’t have anything that I want to change. I’m sure I did in the past but I can’t recall, which means it wasn’t that big a deal.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 January 2022 source ↗