Stephen Fry (Part 1)
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Minnie questions actor, broadcaster, and comedian Stephen Fry. Stephen recounts borrowing all of Oscar Wilde’s works from a traveling library van, what the first love of his youth revealed to him, and recalls a day spent with ducks and ice cream.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | You've done all the Harry Potter. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm guilty as charged, yes. |
| 0:08.6 | My agent had read it and said there's a children's book and they'd like you to do it for an audio. |
| 0:13.4 | And I said, okay, thinking, you know, that's half a day's job, isn't it? |
| 0:18.3 | If the cat looks at the dog, the dog looked at the cat, it was nice, the end. |
| 0:22.1 | And that's a children's book. What could be better? It turned out to be a full novel length, but I started reading it, and I thought, this is rather good. So I agreed to do it. And I turned up, and there was Joe Rowling, and she likes to remind me of this. I said, you know, I think this is just wonderful. |
| 0:19.5 | People are going to love it. |
| 0:20.6 | This is such a great thing. |
| 0:21.6 | She said, well,, I think this is just wonderful. |
| 0:38.3 | People are going to love it. |
| 0:39.3 | It's such a great thing. |
| 0:40.3 | She said, well, I have to tell you. |
| 0:42.3 | I've actually, I've already written the second one, |
| 0:43.3 | and it's going to be published in two months. |
| 0:45.3 | And I said, good for you. |
| 0:51.3 | Good for you. |
| 0:52.3 | Keep on writing. |
| 0:53.3 | Why not? You never know. You might get lucky. Oh my God. |
| 1:00.8 | Hello, I'm Mini Driver and welcome to Mini Questions. I've always loved Proustionaire. |
| 1:07.5 | It was originally an 18th century parlor game meant to reveal an individual's true nature. |
| 1:12.5 | But with so many questions, there wasn't really an opportunity to expand on anything. |
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