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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?

577 answers answered between 1930 and 2026 one of 25 in The Q&A

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 4 Arts and letters 487 Politics and public life 37 Business and finance 19 Sport 30
Read by age Any age Before thirty 25 In their thirties 83 In their forties 113 In their fifties 109 In their sixties 100 Seventy and beyond 77
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Trevor McDonald British newsreader and journalist
As a young child in the West Indies and having fun with my friends, playing sport and hanging about.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 January 2011 source ↗
Jesse Jackson American minister, activist and politician
In college, meeting my wife and then having our first child, and marching together to bring down the walls of Jim Crow.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 April 2012 source ↗
Joan Bakewell English journalist, television presenter and politician
My student days at Cambridge.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2013 source ↗
Mike Wallace American journalist
Nineteen thirty-nine. Grand Rapids, Michigan. Station WOOD, 20 bucks a week.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2015 source ↗
John Simpson English journalist
Recently, when I got out of hospital and into my own bed with my wife and 10-year-old son; we watched some crap television and life had never seemed better.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2016 source ↗
Kellie Maloney Retired boxing manager, promoter and politician
At the birth of my children; when Lennox Lewis was crowned undisputed world heavyweight champion; and the day I had my final gender reassignment operation.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 August 2024 source ↗

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