Sally Lindsay: What does love feel like? — FLAPSS

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What does love feel like?

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Sally Lindsay

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So many different types. When I first met my husband, electric and vital. When I first held my boys in my arms, an overwhelming flood of defiant protection and magic.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 August 2025 source ↗

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Steph McGovern Broadcaster

Scary, because when you really love, it means that you are really scared of losing it as well.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 November 2020 source ↗

Finding your phone.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 January 2026 source ↗

Laurence Fox English actor and activist

Different nowadays. It feels nourishing.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 December 2019 source ↗

Omid Djalili British stand-up comedian and actor

Jumping on the seats of a deserted carriage on a London-bound train from Canterbury in 1989.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗

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Always sleep on any decision.

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I am a perimenopausal woman, so about two minutes ago, at a dog being adopted on Insta.

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It’s already happened – HRT.

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A radio journalist or on the till at Marks & Spencer.

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I constantly forget people’s names when they have literally just told me.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 August 2025 source ↗

Question Who most deserves an apology from you, and why? Failure & regret

When I was 17 I didn’t visit my gran for six weeks as I was out partying. At the end of that summer she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. I never saw the real her again. I would love to say sorry to her as I loved her so much.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 August 2025 source ↗

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