If you could edit your past, what would you change?

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Jeremy Vine English presenter and journalist

I’d stop my teenage self worrying about how my life was going to pan out.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 August 2019 source ↗

Krishnan Guru-Murthy British journalist

I’d have been there on the spot for every major news story I’ve talked about in the studio, at the time it happened.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 January 2021 source ↗

Moments of vanity, carelessness and unkindness.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 January 2026 source ↗

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