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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 August 2017 source ↗
I worked in the customer services department of a mobile phone gambling company and it was very depressing, because the people calling up were usually not happy.
I was a terrible secretary in a publishing company (clumsy, disorganised, hid letters behind the filing cabinet because I was supposed to have done something with them and I wasn’t sure what).
I worked in a paper factory at five o’clock on a Saturday morning when I was in my early 20s. I’d go out raving the night before, get an hour’s sleep and then go to the factory. I was covered in paper cuts and used to think I heard people talking to me; they gave me a lot of breaks because they thought I was going mad.
When I was a kid I was a chambermaid in my family’s hotel, and I once found a strap-on that someone had left behind.
Clive Stafford Smith, for his incredible work with the Reprieve charity.
A librarian. Or a racing driver for Ferrari F1.
Not playing Freddie Mercury.
My Austin Healey.
I am pretty chirpy at the moment.
To Ms Dooley, for failing my maths GCSE several times over.
Adeel Akhtar, Adjoa Andoh, Adrian Dunbar, Adrian Edmondson, Aidan Gillen, Alison Steadman
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