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I don’t know. I prefer it that way.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 February 2021 source ↗
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Emilia Fox
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I’ve been to two postmortems in real life, and spent the last 14 years talking about death at work – so, pretty close.
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Skydiving: the parachute got tangled around my legs.
Christopher Eccleston
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During my severe clinical depression in 2016. I was at Piccadilly station in Manchester and a train was coming.
Laurence Fox
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A motorbike crash. I broke my shoulder and ribs and was so scared I didn’t ride for two years.
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