Category: TV
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Date: 15.10.2004
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Friday
15 October 2004, 10.35pm, Â鶹Éç ONE
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Â鶹Éç TWO's QI chairman and Harry Potter narrator Stephen
Fry reminisces about his own schooldays with Jonathan Ross
this Friday.
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Fry, who has narrated every Harry Potter book ("I
get sobbing thanks from parents in supermarkets"), and who stars
in the forthcoming TV dramatisation of Tom Brown's Schooldays, was himself
sent to boarding school as a young child.
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"I was sent away when I was seven. People say
that's cruel," he comments, "but you're surrounded by people
undergoing exactly the same experience, you assume it's absolutely normal."
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"Bullying was the issue. Whenever I was physically
intimidated I just said no, don't hit me, it'll give me an erection!"
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Fry also talks about his compulsion for performing:
"I am still compelled to do lots of things. We're whores at heart...
it's a fundamental desire to please."
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Jonathan also welcomes to the show Hollywood actress
Minnie Driver, who is returning to her first love, music, with
a tour of the UK and an album, Everything I've Got In My Pocket.
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She says: "I was a singer before I was an actress.
I had stuff to write about, it just seemed like a good idea... a lot
of people were very surprised."
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Minnie performs Ruby Adeline, a track from the album:
"It's about some friends of mine who were trying to have a baby
for a long time. They gave up, and then they had Ruby."
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She also talks about her enjoyment of living alone
- "I love it, I have my dog Baba" – and reveals that
he consulted a pet psychic "who said he liked the new house, and
that he wants me to know that he has a lovely life!"
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The line-up is completed with comedian-turned-actor
Lee Evans, about to star in Mel Brooks' hit Broadway musical
The Producers which opens in the West End next month; and there's more
music from New York band The Mooney Suzuki, with a track from
their new album Alive & Amplified.
