Romola Garai: When were you happiest?

When were you happiest?

Originally asked

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

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

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

Recorded Romola Garai said elsewhere, not written here

In the orange blossom-filled streets of Seville, snogging on a park bench.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 February 2013 source ↗

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Basketball player and author

My college years, when everything was possible and I felt physically invulnerable.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2020 source ↗

Mike Wallace American journalist

Nineteen thirty-nine. Grand Rapids, Michigan. Station WOOD, 20 bucks a week.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2015 source ↗

Katharine Hamnett English fashion designer

Camping with my parents in the south of France. We went every year with the beautiful bell tent they made on a sewing machine. We even had a lavatory tent which was fabulous except, one day, it blew away with my father in it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 September 2019 source ↗

Billie Piper English actress and former singer

My son's second birthday. It was a typical autumn day – bright sky, cold fingers. He was dressed as a skeleton and we ate chilli in the garden.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 November 2011 source ↗