Robert Bathurst: 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 Robert Bathurst said elsewhere, not written here

When I turned 30, married and had a place in Brixton. My flailing twenties were over, though the flailing continues.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 June 2020 source ↗

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Alan Dale New Zealand actor

I have never been happier than I am now. As for when I was happiest in my work, playing King Arthur in Spamalot in the West End.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 March 2009 source ↗

Gary Barlow British singer

We’re in such a good place now as a family. It’s the same for my career. I say no to so many things; I never used to be able to.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 February 2017 source ↗

Archie Panjabi British actress

When I got a doctorate from my alma mater, Brunel. My mother always wanted me to become a doctor.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 February 2018 source ↗

Ranulph Fiennes English explorer

In 1982, having travelled for three years to do the first journey around the earth on its polar axis. Charles Burton and I were trying to get from the north pole down to our ship on the edge of the Arctic Sea. We had to float for three months on a diminishing ice floe. Eventually we had to leave the floe and try to get to the ship in canoes with skis under them. In the maze of broken ice we saw its masts on the horizon. That second was probably my happiest moment.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2008 source ↗