SC
The Hovis ad music.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 August 2019 source ↗
The question
What song would you want played at your funeral?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.
Others on this question
View all 178 →
Chris O'Dowd
Irish actor and comedian
Monster Mash, by Bobby Pickett.
Ruth Jones
Welsh actress, producer, and writer
Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West).
Joan Bakewell
English journalist, television presenter and politician
A hymn called The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, Is Ended.
Tom Ellis
Welsh actor
Another One Bites The Dust.
More from Sara Cox
View profile →Getting a daily show on Radio 2, because that was an ambition for so long.
The ability to walk in high heels.
My half-electric Volvo.
A full belly and a nice nap.
Modelling in South Korea, aged 19. After a party, I flopped into bed, lit a big candle and balanced it on top of a massive box of matches. I created my own firework display when the candle burnt down and set fire to it. It made the biggest noise ever which, luckily, woke me from my slightly boozy slumber.
As an adult, not having my own horse yet.
More on death & what remains
- How would you want people to remember you? 213 answers
- How close have you come to dying? 209 answers
- If you had only one day left, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid? 54 answers
- What do you believe happens when we die? 50 answers
- What would you most want to leave your children? 44 answers
- What kind of death would you consider a good one? 43 answers
Also answered this
Imelda Staunton, Julien Macdonald, Joseph Fiennes, Gloria Estefan, Ethan Hawke, Emily Mortimer
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All death & what remains questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject