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Sinatra's The Best Is Yet To Come.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗
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Madhur Jaffrey
Actress, cook, and TV host
None: I do not want a funeral.
Emilia Fox
English actress and presenter
I would like the poem Cherish by Raymond Carver. It was read by my dad at my wedding, and is my absolute favourite.
Terry O'Neill
British photographer
Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone.
Barbra Streisand’s Evergreen from A Star Is Born or You’ll Never Walk Alone from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel.
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Still being married to Annabel.
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