Katharine Hamnett
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A hydrogen-powered private jet for me and my dog. We’d be zero carbon dioxide emissions, so could go anywhere we liked.
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Seeing Leyton Orient in the premiership.
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If it took less than 14 hours to fly to New Zealand, that would be great. A super-duper-fast plane would be cool.
OCD medication.
Ultimately, a bigger hallway.
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When I was 16, I’d just won full scholarships to both the Royal Academy and the Royal College of Music, and felt like the world was my oyster.
A detective, a train driver on the underground and Leyton Orient’s centre forward.
Nothing: the good times, the bad times, they make your character.
My cello. At the time, in 1983, it was £192,500.
When the surgeon told me I wouldn’t be able to play the cello again, in 2013. I have a herniated disc and it’s pressing on a nerve in my neck. I announced I was stopping playing in 2014. I absolutely did not want to stop.
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