Frank Bowling: What most recently made you cry?

Originally asked

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

A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.

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

Recorded Frank Bowling said elsewhere, not written here

In 2001, when my eldest son died.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2026 source ↗

Others on this question

Paul Giamatti American actor

Really? We have to keep bringing up the Nobel debacle?

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 December 2013 source ↗

Richard Osman English TV presenter and writer

I cry at everything – adverts, Gogglebox, hugging my kids. I love crying: it’s like your pain is laughing.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 June 2016 source ↗

Courtney Pine British jazz musician

When my new-born daughter Cleopatra died and I wasn’t there. I was doing a US tour and I remember sitting down in an airport and losing it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 September 2022 source ↗

Hayley Atwell British American actress

On stage. It was cathartic. It takes a lot for me to cry in real life.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 December 2018 source ↗