Bryan Adams
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Skydiving: the parachute got tangled around my legs.
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Climbing Scafell Pike in the Lake District when I was about 15. The winds were about 85mph, my legs lifted and I nearly flew off. Thankfully somebody grabbed me.
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Clive Myrie
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Coming under attack while reporting in Iraq.
Fatima Bhutto
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I don’t know. I prefer it that way.
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Katie Whittaker. When we were at school, I told her I knew Take That, and I didn’t.
Guilt for not being productive enough – ridiculous.
My dog was quite expensive. She’s a Bedlington whippet, named Rafi after Mohammed Rafi, the famous Indian singer. She’s got a boy’s name, but she doesn’t mind.
Watching the final episode of Mare Of Easttown.
As the billionaire philanthropist Anita Rani, who helped bring education to huge numbers of young women around the world.
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