Romy Gill
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Minnie questions Romy Gill MBE, chef, food and travel writer, and broadcaster. Romy reminisces about childhood train rides through India, writing letters to some of the world’s top chefs when she was a young chef in training, and why a meal from a food cart was one of the best things she’s ever eaten.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:08.1 | I think like you, I really push myself. |
| 0:12.6 | And also I think I should stop. |
| 0:14.6 | You're never going to please anybody. |
| 0:16.9 | Yeah, you're never going to please anybody. |
| 0:18.3 | That's so funny. |
| 0:19.3 | As opposed to you're never going to please everybody. You're never going to please anybody. My dad used to say that because you know the phrase is, you can't have everything. And my dad used to go, oh, well, you can't have anything. I like that. |
| 0:32.6 | Hello, I'm Minnie Driver. I've always loved Proust's questionette It was originally an 19th century parlor game, where players would ask each other 35 questions |
| 0:43.3 | aimed at revealing the other player's true nature. |
| 0:47.3 | In asking different people the same set of questions, you can make observations about which truths appear to be universal. |
| 0:53.3 | And it made me wonder, what if these questions were just the jumping off point? |
| 0:58.0 | What greater depths would be revealed if I asked these questions as conversation starters? |
| 1:03.3 | So I adapted Proust questionnaire, and I wrote my own seven questions that I personally think are pertinent to a person's story. |
| 1:10.1 | They are. |
| 1:12.1 | When and where were you happiest? |
| 1:15.0 | What is the quality you like least about yourself? |
| 1:19.0 | What relationship real or fictionalized defines love for you? |
| 1:21.4 | What question would you most like answered? |
| 1:25.2 | What person, place or experience has shaped you the most? |
| 1:26.8 | What would be your last meal? |
| 1:28.4 | And can you tell me something in your life that's grown out of a personal disaster? And I've gathered a group of really |
| 1:34.8 | remarkable people, ones that I am honoured and humbled to have had the chance to engage with. |
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