Anybody who works in frontline mental health services for the NHS.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
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My wife, Hannah. She’s amazing and keeps me in check. I met her 24 years ago at drama school.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 April 2018 source ↗
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My parents. They have been the best example of a loving and respectful marriage over 60 years.
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Stacey Dooley. She does incredible documentaries – in one, she took spoiled British kids to the Philippines to work in a factory. It’s exactly what my kids need to watch.
James Norton
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Greta Thunberg, for obvious reasons.
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Liverpool losing the FA Cup final to Wimbledon when I was a kid. It made me cry.
I was knocked over by a taxi in Liverpool when I was seven. And I fell off the seventh storey of a car park when I was 10 and broke both legs, my collarbone and my arm.
I worked in a TGI Fridays when I was 19 and came to London for the first time. It was absolutely horrible and I got fired after two weeks.
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