Joanna Scanlan: What do you consider your greatest achievement?

What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Originally asked

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

Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.

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

Recorded Joanna Scanlan said elsewhere, not written here

Having someone to love.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 March 2018 source ↗

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Jodie Whittaker English actress

My friendships.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 September 2018 source ↗

Paul Heaton British musician

Making songs that are more famous than me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 May 2020 source ↗

Tim Peake British Army Air Corps officer and astronaut

Doing the spacewalk to fix a solar panel at the furthest edge of the ISS. You have no idea if you are going to get a chance to do a spacewalk when you go into space. I was fortunate. There’s a real juxtaposition between floating, completely serene and calm, looking down at Earth and the universe, and being aware that you are in this hostile environment.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 October 2022 source ↗

Richard Feynman Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965

There was no importance to what I was doing, but ultimately there was. The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling plate.

Recorded Excerpt from “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman”, Engineering and Science / Caltech Magazine, 1985 source ↗