This is an IHeart podcast.

It's not a perfect piece, but in a strange way, that kind of makes me enjoy it more

because you can see how it could evolve into something like that.

It's emanating from it.

It's alive, the piece.

I can't wait.

I don't want perfection.

Perfection should actually go in a big hole in the back garden,

along with the word should.

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 aimed at revealing the other player's true nature.

In asking different people the same set of questions, you can make observations about which truths appear to be universal.

And it made me wonder, what if these questions were just the jumping off point?

What greater depths would be revealed if I asked these questions as conversation starters? So I adapted Proustioner and I wrote my own seven questions that I personally think are pertinent to a person's story. They are, when and where were you happiest? What is the quality you like least about yourself? What relationship real or fictionalised

defines love for you? What question would you most like answered? What person, place or experience has

shaped you the most? What would be your last meal? 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 remarkable people, ones that I am honoured and humbled

to have had the chance to engage with.

You may not hear their answers to all seven of these questions.

We've whittled it down to which questions felt closest to their experience or the most surprising or created the most fertile

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