Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 May 2022 source ↗
Cowardice. There are so many issues that I would like to express opinions about but I’m too scared to stick my head above the parapet because of the social media pile-on.
My fear of confrontation.
An “elastic” sense of time (fancy way of saying I am late a lot).
Self-absorption.
Realising that if they were drowning, you’d try to save them.
A little girl called Pat. We were nine-year-olds together and all the class made her life a misery. I knew she wanted to be my friend and I would only be friends with her if nobody else was around. I feel dreadful about that.
A few years ago in Vermont, when I eloped with Trish to have a civil partnership ceremony.
When I was in my 30s and taped myself singing. I always thought I had quite a sweet voice – my voice is terrible, I can’t hold a note.
Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Jack Whitehall, Julie Andrews, Pauline McLynn, Joyce Carol Oates, Adam Kay
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