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May 2022
55m 33s

Minnie Driver

Fearne Cotton
About this episode

What do you feel the meaning of life is? Purpose? Happiness? Does it matter if we’re not sure? In this chat, Fearne and actor Minnie Driver explore how it might gently fluctuate as we go through different stages of our lives.


Minnie also talks about her innate ability to articulate emotion, something that was often agony during her childhood, but has now allowed her to parent her own son in a deeply empathetic way.


Minnie’s memoir(ish) is out now; it’s called Managing Expectations.



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