The question
What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?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.
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Pleasure is a glass of champagne, happiness is when you are living your values. I get up each morning and I’m excited by the day, and I have good health. This is the happiest that I’ve ever been.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 January 2023 source ↗
Visiting my children at college. I don't stay long, because their lives are so busy - the way they should be.
When my daughters were delivered safely.
My childhood summers in Trenton, Ohio, and starting work at Warner Bros.
Mornings. Playing music, fresh coffee, dippy eggs and soldiers, my girlfriend – what’s not to love?
In the Sultan of Brunei’s will.
“Oh, he’s all about money.” I’ve never charged anyone in all the years I’ve been doing one-to-one work. That’s my gift to the world.
I was a Harrods store detective for a day. I was so bad at it, one of the other detectives thought I looked suspicious and reported me.
My wife dying. I wouldn’t know how to go on.
People mistaking my kindness for weakness and stealing from me.
Impatience. My dad said I was born in a hurry.
Martin Clunes, Anna Friel, Peter Gabriel, Charles Dance, Meghan Trainor, Adwoa Aboah
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