British singer
Recorded · The Guardian · 2021
When I was younger, I appeared in the Halifax adverts that featured a cake or a bridge made of hundreds of people. You stood there for three days and were not even really seen.
Since 2020
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What is the worst job you have ever had?
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's long-running Q&A repeatedly asks this standing question, with minor tense variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
English chef
Recorded · The Guardian · 2022
Washing up in the Ford factory canteen in Dagenham.
Author of fiction, comics and screenplays
Recorded · The Guardian · 2023
The only job I quit was, aged about 23, subediting a “men’s” magazine. My job was typing out readers’ pornographic fantasies.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2026
I’ve enjoyed every single job, including working at my dad’s chicken shop selling potato gems (fried potato circles) to the surfer dudes.
English musician and actor
Recorded · The Guardian · 2023
Working in a very busy bar in the West End when I was trying to pay my way through drama school.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2025
Standing outside a pub in Acton on a freezing February day in a threadbare overcoat doing market research.
When did you last change your mind about something important?
Originally asked
Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017
The exact question was part of every retrieved Vox 9 Questions installment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2025
I woke up this morning thinking maybe I don’t want to be an actor any more, then I had breakfast and I thought: actually, no, I really like being an actor.
Neurosurgeon and writer
Recorded · The Guardian · 2022
When I now think of how the uncertainty about my own future, and the proximity of death, threw me into torment, careering wildly between hope and despair, I look back in wonder at how…
Recorded · The Guardian · 2025
When I worked out I was gay and decided to leave the church at 29.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2025
My mind is changing about being a mum. I got a dog and the way I feel about it is a lot, and I realise maybe I would want to be a mum.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2026
I am so obdurate I do not change my mind.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2023
I changed my mind on airing my views. Sometimes silence is better.
Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
British actress
Recorded · The Guardian · 2020
Hillary Clinton, because it’s not easy being bullied and humiliated publicly and carrying on.
Recorded · Vanity Fair · 2021
My mom, for her unflappable ability to be sanguine (though she sometimes dips into Pollyanna territory).
Recorded · The Guardian · 2026
Anyone who can pick up a house spider with their bare hands.
English actress and author
Recorded · The Guardian · 2023
The amazing women standing up against the Taliban.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2025
My wife, because of the lessons we’ve learned and what we have overcome over the course of our time together.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2025
Lemn Sissay. What happened to him and what he’s done with his life is extraordinary.
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