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Sylvia Kristel, the world's most famous porn star
Sylvia Kristel From The Independent
'The world's most famous porn star'. What did life hold in store for her after Emmanuelle? " I meet Sylvia Kristel – always "Emmanuelle", even after all these years –…
30 June 2007
Sylvie de la Rochefoucauld
Sylvie de la Rochefoucauld From Mail on Sunday
'How Jean-Do, my butterfly, escaped his diving bell at last'. Paralysed by Locked-in Syndrome, he dictated a bestseller using only one eyelid. As the film is nominated for Baftas, Jean-Dominique…
3 February 2008
My Friend Anne Frank
Hannah Goslar Pick From Daily Mirror
Interview with Hannah Goslar Pick, one of Anne Frank's closest schoolfriends and the last living person to speak to the world-famous diarist when they were captives together at the Bergen-Belsen…
3 January 2009
J.D. Salinger dies. Here is a rare interview from the archives...
J.D. Salinger From New York Times
J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose "The Catcher in the Rye" shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91.…
3 November 1974
George Orwell's son speaks for the first time about his father
Richard Blair From Sunday Times
What would it have been like to be brought up by George Orwell? Pretty grim, you might think. But you would be wrong. In June 1944, Orwell and his wife…
15 March 2009
Dave Pelzer
Dave Pelzer From Daily Telegraph
Dave Pelzer: 'You don't get over it, just accept it'. The story of his brutal childhood was the first 'misery memoir', and Dave Pelzer has since dedicated his life to…
20 June 2008
I miss the satisfaction of a job well done, says Belle de Jour
Dr Brooke Magnanti From Sky News
The research scientist who unmasked herself as call girl Belle de Jour has said she misses aspects of being a prostitute. Brooke Magnanti - who told colleagues at the Bristol…
27 November 2009
Lynn Barber interviews Benjamin Zephaniah
Benjamin Zephaniah From The Observer
Benjamin Zephaniah has lived in Birmingham, Jamaica, Newham, Egypt, Yugoslavia, South Africa, and now, at 50, divides his time between Beijing and a village near Spalding, Lincolnshire. It's the Spalding…
18 January 2009
Martin Amis and the sex war
Martin Amis From Sunday Times
Martin Amis has dazzled his readers for decades and wooed a succession of beautiful women. Now 60, he talks about the sex war and its casualties, fear of losing his…
24 January 2010
Robert Rigby
Robert Rigby From BBC
Prolific writer Robert Rigby is the author behind the Boy Soldier series, which he co-writes with SAS hero Andy McNab, and the successful novelisations of the Goal! movies. Rigby began…
11 July 2006
Ray Kluun
Ray Kluun From The Times
'Heartless philanderer or modern emotional realist?' This man slept with dozens of women throughout his marriage, even when his wife was at home dying from cancer. Yet he never stopped…
31 March 2007
Diana Melly and son Tom
Diana Melly and son Tom From Sunday Times Magazine
Relative Values: Diana Melly, 70, has been a model and is an author. She was married for 44 years to the jazzman and writer George Melly, who died in July,…
28 October 2007
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf From BBC Radio 4
Words Fail Me. Virginia Woolf gives a eulogy to words.
29 April 1937
Agony aunt Irma Kurtz: If you're over 60, don't act your age
Irma Kurtz From The Times
The agony aunt Irma Kurtz, 73, says that staying curious in old age is a vital as a flexible spine. It says something about life in 2009 that the cover…
12 March 2009
cheyrl cole
cheyrl cole
Meet the Girls Aloud star - scrutinised for her Wag lifestyle, naked ambition and troubled family past - as she releases her new CD. Cheryl Cole and I step out…
12 December 2009
