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Last week, while I was wet-wrapping my child’s chronic eczema.
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Bill Bryson
American-British author
When the Guardian called me a scaremonger for wanting to preserve London’s green belt.
Michelle Dockery
British actress
Watching Big Little Lies season 2. Shailene Woodley made me bawl.
Don Warrington
British actor
I am not a great crier.
Alan Dale
New Zealand actor
Last week when I read a passage from the novel my wife is writing.
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I started stammering badly the first time I was on live radio, on Woman’s Hour on Radio 4. When I think about it now it brings me out in a cold sweat.
Darnella Frazier, the teenager who filmed George Floyd’s murder. It took astonishing courage to stand on the pavement in front of those policemen, and we all owe her so much.
“You’ll never walk again.” This was when I was eight or nine and recovering from viral encephalitis.
Interrupting or talking over people. As a stammerer, I am particularly alert to this.
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