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Rock climbing in Oslo. During abseiling, I hadn’t tied a knot at the end of the rope and almost slid out. I saw the end of the rope at the last second, so I stopped abseiling.
How long have you got? I have written a memoir and the subtitle is Seventeen Brushes with Death.
Have you seen my documentaries?
A piece of scenery fell on my head during Richard II at the Globe theatre in 2019. I was very badly hurt.
Since hostile people still call me a former Playboy Bunny, even at 82, I probably shouldn’t have done that in my youth, even to write an exposé. And since a couple of times they’ve also referred to me as a former CIA agent, because I went to two Soviet-era communist youth festivals, I probably shouldn’t have done that, either. Yet if I hadn’t done both, I might have judged other people by such empty symbols, too.
Feeling you want someone else’s welfare as much and sometimes more than your own.
Seeing the future die, from Bobby Kennedy to dear friends.
Dying just a millisecond before I was about to say something I really wanted the people I love to hear.
As someone who left the world around me a little kinder and less hierarchical.
I haven’t done it yet.
Robert Peston, Anita Rani, Clive Myrie, Desmond Tutu, Jon Snow, Winston Churchill
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