The question
If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Nothing – haven’t you heard of the butterfly effect? I could find myself still collecting glasses in Charnock Richard while Donald Sutherland would be enjoying my life.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 May 2019 source ↗
I might have carried on doing The Voice.
Nothing: the good times, the bad times, they make your character.
I’d be happier being myself younger.
I’d give myself some fashion sense.
What I am now, but with a better singing voice.
Collecting glasses in a Lancashire pub. Try to take a pint glass with a millimetre of foam still in it, and you get a lit cigarette on the back of your hand.
Phoning my dad to tell him we’d won the Edinburgh Perrier award with The League Of Gentlemen in 1997.
Tears Of Laughter by Cheese and Crackers. We wrote it for an episode of Inside No 9 and it ends “Laughter is my memory of you...”
Alison Steadman, Eleanor Tomlinson, Mandy Patinkin, Jack Whitehall, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Julia Stiles
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