Sandi Toksvig: How would you describe what love feels like to you? — FLAPSS

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How would you describe what love feels like to you?

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Sandi Toksvig

Danish and British broadcaster, comedian and writer

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Like driving a Ford Mustang with the top down across the Golden Gate Bridge while the sun is setting and you have a dinner reservation in Sausalito.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗

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Bryan Adams Canadian singer-songwriter and musician

It can be as light as a feather or as heavy as a stone.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 December 2022 source ↗

Gloria Estefan Cuban-American singer and songwriter

Comforting, solid, unconditional, a drug.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2019 source ↗

Fay Ripley English actress, television presenter, cookbook author

A Mary Berry victoria sponge.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 November 2022 source ↗

Griff Rhys Jones British actor and comedian

Adolescent love feels like exquisite self-indulgence. Long-term love feels like a warm bath that needs a trickle of extra hot water every now and then.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2017 source ↗

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Question How would you want people to remember you? Death & what remains

As having done my best.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗

Question How close have you come to dying? Death & what remains

I’ve had a surprising number of near-death experiences: I was nearly blown up by a landmine in Sudan; I was stranded on the Zambezi river at night; I was bucked off a rodeo horse in Arizona and had to be airlifted to hospital; and, worst of all, I once ate a Pot Noodle.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗

Question What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy? Time & hindsight

Last Tuesday at 10 past three.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗

Question What most recently moved you to tears? Identity & self

When I read the story of a blind, bisexual goose called Thomas who had died in New Zealand after a lifetime of love for a swan called Henry. It sounds ridiculous but is entirely true.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗

Question Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought? Money & investment

My five-litre Ford Mustang.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗

Question Who deserves an apology from you, and for what? Failure & regret

Any fashion designer whose clothes on me must have made them weep.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗

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