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The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2025 source ↗
Acting, when you don’t want to do it or you disagree with everything, is almost like having sex with someone you don’t like. I had one experience like that on stage, in a terrible version of The Cherry Orchard. I put on a wig, dark-coloured contacts and just hoped no one would recognise me.
Nappies aren’t fun!
At the BBC, in the old days, a piece of paper was sent to various households for them to report on what they’d watched that week. In my early 20s, I collated the data. It was deeply boring.
When I was a teenager I worked as a lifeguard, and one of our duties was to clean the showers. It essentially involved cleaning people’s pubes from the drain.
A drummer in a famous band or an astronaut.
Throat and neck cancer in 2018. They told me six to eight months if it hadn’t been caught.
A sense of what’s right, a few quid and some nice paintings.
Having three great daughters, having been on the radio for nearly 50 years and not being dead.
A nice long rest.
The Radio 1 breakfast show was an embarrassing moment that lasted for nine months.
Helen George, Monty Don, Robert Glenister, Kevin Rowland, PP Arnold, Rosanna Arquette
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