The question
What most recently moved you to tears?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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Last week I saw a moorhen feeding her chicks, and became overwhelmed by the miracle of parenthood and maternal sacrifice. And I hadn’t even been drinking.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2017 source ↗
I cried a few days ago because I couldn't face moving my stuff out of my house because of termites. I cried out of exhaustion from trying to make it so they wouldn't get termite gas on everything, especially my kid's stuff. I cried at the end of the day.
Singing Abide With Me at the funeral of Bruce Reynolds [ringleader of the Great Train Robbery], March 2013.
Listening to Iris DeMent singing Our Town, because of her voice and the truth of what she is singing about, which is that small towns and communities are dying all over.
At my mother’s funeral last year.
My mother. Any child of a single parent, if they are in a relationship when they become a parent, thinks, “How the hell did you do it alone?”
As the father of Celtic’s all-time top goalscorer (that’s either of my kids).
Finding cucumber in things is a continual disappointment.
That will depend on when and how I die, but you couldn’t beat The Birdie Song to set the right tone.
Finding your place.
I inadvertently rubbed the milky residue of a toxic cactus plant into my eye while filming Women In Love in the desert in Namibia, and my body went into anaphylactic shock as the producer sped me to a clinic 50 miles away.
Lesley Sharp, Isla Fisher, Brendan Gleeson, Liev Schreiber, Cybill Shepherd, David Harewood
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