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Oh, Stephen, I love that so much.

I had, I had Orson Wells reading The Selfish Giant on a record that I listened to when I was about five or six.

And I used to, this is my garden.

It is, it is so brilliant.

Anyone find it, everybody should listen to it.

The children are my flowers.

Yes, it's glorious.

I only have to hear those and I can smell an old-fashioned gramophone and the reference it went on. You know that dusty smell as it

warmed up and the little crackle. Hello, I'm Minnie Driver and welcome to MiniQuestions. I've always loved

Proust's questionnaire. It was originally an 18th century parlour game meant to reveal an individual's true nature.

But with so many questions, there wasn't really an opportunity to expand on anything.

So I took the format of Proust's questionnaire and adapted what I think are seven of the most important questions you could ever ask someone.

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 has grown out of a personal disaster?

The more people we ask, the more we begin to see what makes us similar and what makes us individual.

I've gathered a group of really remarkable people who I am honoured and humbled to have had a chance to engage with. In last week's

episode, we heard Stephen's answers to when and where were you happiest. You think of something,

a sunny day on the beach or in a park. It may be that you were very young,

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