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What do you consider your greatest achievement?

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Sofie Gråbøl Danish actress
Coming back to work after being ill. A year ago I couldn't see that happening. I am still pinching myself.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 July 2014 source ↗
Mel Giedroyc British actress and comedian
If you think that you have one, then you’re a bit of a prat, aren’t you?
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 August 2015 source ↗
Maggie Aderin-Pocock British space scientist and science educator
Over the last eight years I have been privileged to see 250,000 schoolkids across the world and tell them my story – a kid with dyslexia from a broken home becoming a space scientist – and inspire them to do something they dream about.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 March 2016 source ↗
Shappi Khorsandi Iranian-born British comedian
Getting an A for my English A-level. I’m dyslexic; it was never detected and I was written off as scatty and lazy. This proved everyone wrong, including me.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 February 2017 source ↗
Sarah Millican English comedian
That I turned a broken heart into a career. That I hit rock bottom and bounced back up a lot higher.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 January 2018 source ↗
Archie Panjabi British actress
I am an ambassador for Rotary, and we are very close to eradicating polio. When I was younger, I lived in Mumbai and, as a kid from England, I was traumatised by seeing children on the street without limbs.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 February 2018 source ↗
Chris Hoy British track cyclist, 1994–2013
The six Olympic gold medals, because at school I was never great at sport. When I look back on my career I think, how on Earth did that happen?
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 February 2018 source ↗
Louis Theroux British and American journalist and author
To have made a career in TV while being nervous by nature and incapable of doing a piece to camera.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 November 2018 source ↗
Susan Calman Scottish comedian
Not giving up comedy, because it took six or seven years before I started earning a living.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 November 2018 source ↗

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