She bided her time, though, building up her talk show through a combination of persistent letter-writing to potential guests and nagging friends and business associates for helpful introductions.
Among its national achievements: the largest chapati (at 64kg) in 2005; the biggest gathering of Gandhi lookalikes (485, in Kolkata in 2012); the most persistent letter-writer (456 to a newspaper in Bhopal, between 2000 and 2006); the longest moustache (four metres and 29 cm, or 14 feet, in 2010); threading a needle 7,238 times in two hours (in 1990).
No doubt it's quite annoying when a citizen challenges your ministerial secrets-shield, but labelling my polite-but-persistent letter writing as "vexatious" seemed harsh.
"I'm sure it will come as no surprise to you that, due to your criminal activity, your name appears on the above data and has highlighted you as a persistent offender," the letters said.
If they ignore two warning letters, persistent illegal filesharers should have their broadband connections throttled "to a level which would render filesharing of media files impractical while leaving basic email and web access", according to a statement after the meeting.
The effectiveness of the warning letters to persistent illegal filesharers will be monitored for the first 12 months.
To try to curb unauthorized file-sharing, which the music industry blames for its woes, the report recommends requiring Internet service providers to send warning letters to persistent pirates.
But the UK parcels market continues to be over-supplied and the decline in letter use is persistent.
Earlier in the day, the industry's umbrella group UK Music sent Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, a letter calling for persistent offenders to be given written warnings.
In 1957, in a letter to a persistent Observer reader, a "gentleman" from Sussex who accused her of being an armchair gardener, she describes how Sissinghurst's garden consumed her: "For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation".
That exhibit is complemented by an HBO documentary telling the story of the Lovings' struggle to return home after living in exile in Washington, where Mildred, gentle in person but persistent on paper, wrote pleading letters to Robert F. Kennedy and the A.C.L.U.
