Adrian Scarborough: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

If you could edit 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.

Recorded Adrian Scarborough said elsewhere, not written here

The first 12 years of school. I was very unhappy. I was not academic, so I played the fool till I was 16.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 February 2022 source ↗

Others on this question

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Jessica Hynes British actress and writer

I wouldn’t have drunk alcohol.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 August 2016 source ↗

Michael Kiwanuka English singer-songwriter

Nothing. Everything happens for a reason.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 November 2019 source ↗

Jennifer Hudson American singer and actress

I wouldn’t change a thing. Every experience is a lesson learned.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 January 2018 source ↗

Emma Barnett British broadcaster and journalist

Not being able to have a baby for two and a half years. Lots of people say it made me a better person; I think it made me worse. You go to a very dark place with your friends because they are having kids, and you want to be happy for them but you’re not.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 February 2021 source ↗