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Letter To My Younger Self

Paddy Considine: 'I feel like my life is a series of beautiful interventions'
Paddy Considine
Music

Paddy Considine: 'I feel like my life is a series of beautiful interventions'

'What you really love to do will keep you going': Remembering June Brown, EastEnders' iconic Dot Cotton
June Brown, who played Dot Cotton in EastEnders. Photo by Derek Cox/PA.
TV

'What you really love to do will keep you going': Remembering June Brown, EastEnders' iconic Dot Cotton

Will Young: 'I worked out that nothing really matters, then found simplistic joy in everything'
Will Young
Music

Will Young: 'I worked out that nothing really matters, then found simplistic joy in everything'

Alex Winter: 'Keanu and I never thought Bill & Ted was going to be a big movie'
Alex Winter
Letter To My Younger Self

Alex Winter: 'Keanu and I never thought Bill & Ted was going to be a big movie'

Lloyd Cole: 'My younger self would probably be appalled I'm still performing with grey hair'
Lloyd Cole
Letter To My Younger Self

Lloyd Cole: 'My younger self would probably be appalled I'm still performing with grey hair'

Clive Myrie: 'You see the very best and very worst of human nature in a conflict situation'
Letter To My Younger Self

Clive Myrie: 'You see the very best and very worst of human nature in a conflict situation'

Dr Hilary Jones: 'I always try to be kind and compassionate, and grateful for what I have'
Dr Hilary Jones
TV

Dr Hilary Jones: 'I always try to be kind and compassionate, and grateful for what I have'

Louis Theroux on childhood worries: 'I wondered if I would ever get any proper tackle'
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Louis Theroux on childhood worries: 'I wondered if I would ever get any proper tackle'

Clive Myrie: 'I’ve been in some dangerous situations, but I don’t think I ever thought about the danger'
News

Clive Myrie: 'I’ve been in some dangerous situations, but I don’t think I ever thought about the danger'

Louis Theroux: 'If I could see Jimmy Savile again I'd take one of his victims to confront him'
Louis Theroux and Jimmy Savile in 'when Louis Met Jimmy'.
Jimmy Savile

Louis Theroux: 'If I could see Jimmy Savile again I'd take one of his victims to confront him'

Tyne Daly: 'I saw an opportunity in Cagney & Lacey to play interesting parts for women'
Letter To My Younger Self

Tyne Daly: 'I saw an opportunity in Cagney & Lacey to play interesting parts for women'

Monica Ali: 'You have to have a core of self-belief to be a writer'
Letter To My Younger Self

Monica Ali: 'You have to have a core of self-belief to be a writer'

Russell Watson: 'I never had any ambition to be a singer at all'
Letter To My Younger Self

Russell Watson: 'I never had any ambition to be a singer at all'

Barry Cryer: A life ‘dogged by good luck’
Barry Cryer in You'll Have Had Your Tea, 2006. Photo Andy Davison
Barry Cryer

Barry Cryer: A life ‘dogged by good luck’

Sally Dynevor: 'It's about time people got to know who I am'
Letter To My Younger Self

Sally Dynevor: 'It's about time people got to know who I am'

Sir Kenneth Branagh: 'I relived many painful and beautiful days making Belfast'
Letter To My Younger Self

Sir Kenneth Branagh: 'I relived many painful and beautiful days making Belfast'

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Peter Dinklage: 'Who says beautiful white people own the rights to romantic stories?'
Letter To My Younger Self

Peter Dinklage: 'Who says beautiful white people own the rights to romantic stories?'

The best of The Big Issue's Letter To My Younger Self from 2021
Letter To My Younger Self

The best of The Big Issue's Letter To My Younger Self from 2021

Michael Sheen: 'I’ve essentially turned myself into a social enterprise, a not-for-profit actor'
Letter To My Younger Self

Michael Sheen: 'I’ve essentially turned myself into a social enterprise, a not-for-profit actor'

Simon Le Bon: 'I’m very lucky. Solo artists have nobody to tell them they’re being an arsehole'
Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon
Letter To My Younger Self

Simon Le Bon: 'I’m very lucky. Solo artists have nobody to tell them they’re being an arsehole'

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