This is an IHeart podcast.

I've tried not to prepare really, so we'll see.

Yeah, it's funny.

It goes one of two ways.

People either really think about it or they don't.

I've gone like half and half.

I think it's fine because I think it's all sort of a trigger anyway, you know, for a larger conversation about life and being here, I think.

That's exactly right. It made me think a lot.

Hello, I'm Minnie Driver. I've always loved Proust's questionnaire.

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 Proust questionnaire, 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 fictionalized 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

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