Greg James: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

The question

If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Greg James

British author, broadcaster, comedian, and presenter

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

If I had known what a stylist was when I joined Radio 1, I would have enlisted the help of one.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 March 2019 source ↗

Others on this question

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Ralf Little English actor, writer, former semi-professional footballer

I wouldn’t have tried to break up a fight when I was 17.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 February 2020 source ↗

Bill Bryson American-British author

Nothing. It’s too risky. What if you eliminated a misjudged situation from your life and it turned out that one of your children wasn’t born, or you failed to meet your partner?

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 February 2016 source ↗

Gareth Bale Welsh footballer

Nothing. Without my past I wouldn’t be who I am today.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 August 2021 source ↗

Naga Munchetty

All the times I was mean to someone.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 July 2025 source ↗