Jeremy Vine
English presenter and journalist
To be able to cycle from my home in Chiswick [west London] to the centre of London on a fully segregated lane.
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More sleep, less stress.
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Isla Fisher
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A small pair of ginger balls.
If people would just follow my rules about how they get around the city.
Two ears. I am deaf in my right ear and I’ve just developed musical tinnitus – it’s not an interesting tune and you don’t choose it. I had three weeks of Hare Krishna night and day. Then it changed to Rod Stewart’s Sailing.
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I was brought up Catholic, to believe that marriage is for life. And we failed.
To my daughter, because she felt that I spent too much time saving other children. I would go to war zones and travel the world for human rights work, and she was missing me.
The climate catastrophe.
Walking in the rainforest with my mother, back in Nicaragua. She loved it, and inspired me to devote much of my life to protecting the environment.
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