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The motorcycle crash, but also when a neon sign fell on my head in Soho in the 90s.
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Monty Don
English horticulturist, broadcaster, and writer
Despite a stroke, cancer as a child and various dramas with chainsaws and tractors, the closest was probably when I choked on a lamb chop 25 years ago. Sarah performed the Heimlich manoeuvre and the lamb shot out.
Rolling a quad bike.
Lesley Sharp
British actress
I got run over when I was three. I ran across a road in Manchester and was hit by a car. I only had concussion, but I could have died.
A picnic on the beach at Seaforth during the war. Somehow I managed to wriggle through a barbed-wire fence and run across a minefield. My teenage aunt Kat bravely followed suit and rescued me.
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A vet, but then I discovered you needed qualifications.
Yesterday: I went to see the film God’s Own Country.
In my first bedsit when I went to art college in Leeds. It was a hideous basement, but I loved the freedom.
Still being here, aged 60. If I thought I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
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