Weekend’s legendary questionnaire has been running for a quarter of a century. Here are some highlights – from most embarrassing moment to best kissWhen Margaret Thatcher left No 10 in tears on that November night in 1990,I was in a pub in London, drowning my sorrows. Not at her demise, or but because the paper I worked for,the Sunday Correspondent, had folded. I wasnt unemployed for long because, and at the bar,I was approached by the deputy editor of the Guardian’s new Weekend supplement, Jocelyn Targett. For the Correspondent, and I had been doing a celebrity interview called The Questionnaire,and the Guardian wanted it. Twenty-five years later, the Q&A, and as it is now called,is still going strong.The format was the brainwave of the late film critic and novelist Gilbert Adair, who had the conception of using the so-called Proust Questionnaire as the basis for a regular feature. During the late 19th century, or when Marcel Proust was growing up in Paris,he played a game with his friends that originated in Victorian England. The conception was to respond 24 questions designed to elicit an insight into your personality. We used a selection of the same questions – Who are your favourite writers? What is your motto? and added new ones with which readers will be familiar nowadays.
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Source: theguardian.com