Jane Asher
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Fine dining when it goes wrong.
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When I realised I wasn’t going to make it as a singer-songwriter when I was about 25.
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Not working in another country.
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My friends dying: Alexander (McQueen), Isabella (Blow), a friend of cancer last year.
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Feeling as though I had to leave Radio 2 to get my life back on track. I had every intention of being David Jacobs or Brian Matthew and going on until I was 127, but it didn’t turn out like that.
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When my mother was alive. She passed away 14 years ago.
A family holiday – anywhere the kids demand. Last year, I wanted us all to go to Egypt and my daughter said, “No, we’re going to go to Grenada.” So we did.
Any song by Donny Hathaway.
Doing the bins while working for McDonald’s in west Ealing.
As someone who cared about others.
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