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Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

Gary Lightbody

Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6598 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Minnie questions Gary Lightbody, lead singer and guitarist of the band Snow Patrol. Gary explores what we do with the questions we still have for those who’ve left, the writing process behind Snow Patrol’s newest album, and shares his nostalgia for Spaghetti Bolognese Night.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:07.5

Early cars were mostly jousting vehicles, I heard.

0:13.0

Are you bringing the jousting vehicle? I am.

0:16.2

Yeah, yeah. We're going to charge at each other at 10 miles an hour.

0:19.2

It's going to be a while.

0:20.7

We're going to drive to Sidcup, but we are also going to choust.

0:25.0

When we get there, after ice cream.

0:28.9

That is super local English humor, that, you know, you've just got to get on board with it, really.

0:35.8

Hello, I'm Minnie Driver.

0:38.1

I've always loved Proust's questionnaire.

0:40.6

It was originally an 19th century parlor game

0:43.7

where players would ask each other 35 questions

0:46.6

aimed at revealing the other player's true nature.

0:50.5

In asking different people the same set of questions,

0:53.4

you can make observations about which

0:55.5

truths appear to be universal and it made me wonder what if these questions were just the jumping

1:00.5

off point what greater depths would be revealed if I asked these questions as conversation starters

1:06.1

so I adapted Proust questionnaire and I wrote my own seven questions that I personally think

1:11.5

are pertinent to a person's story.

1:13.4

They are, when and where were you happiest?

1:16.1

What is the quality you like least about yourself?

1:18.7

What relationship real or fictionalized defines love for you?

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