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What most recently moved you to tears?

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James Dyson British inventor and businessman
Very recently, when a graduate at the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology gave the most brilliant speech on behalf of the students at our first graduation.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 December 2021 source ↗
The really terrible things that are happening in the Middle East made me cry for two days after 7 October. All those poor children on both sides.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 December 2023 source ↗
Watching the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin [about a gamer who died at 25 of a degenerative muscular disease]. I bawled.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗
Ralf Little English actor, writer, former semi-professional footballer
Watching the film The Iron Giant slays me every time.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 February 2020 source ↗

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