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Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?

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Ruth Jones Welsh actress, producer, and writer
A bed from Savoir Beds. People spend loads of money on cars, but spend more of their lives sleeping than driving. The maths is wrong, if you ask me.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 November 2018 source ↗
My aeroplane, a Diamond DA42. It’s a twin-engine aircraft and I bought her brand new to fly around the world solo. Very sadly my mum was diagnosed with terminal cancer about six weeks before I was due to take off, in May 2017, and she died early June. After that, I lost interest in doing it.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 March 2026 source ↗

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Question What song would you want played at your funeral? Death & what remains
It’s another bloody Prince song, I’m so sorry – Mountains. I love how the chord structure ascends and the vocals – “It’s only mountains and the sea / There’s nothing greater than you and me” – feel like an ascension. I’d like to think, when I shuffle off this mortal coil, I’m going to be ascending as opposed to descending. I think I’ve been a good girl.
Recorded The Guardian, Honest playlist, The Guardian, 21 December 2025 source ↗

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