Good to meet you: Gino Ballantyne
Gino Ballantyne
The Guardian
By Becky Barnicoat
1 November 2008
I started reading the Guardian in 1979 when I was working as a chef in London and one of the…
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Interview: Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
The Guardian
By Susanna Rustin
1 November 2008
Toni Morrison breaks off from explaining a crucial passage in her new novel - Florens, the main character, has just…
DR G Ross Roy interview - Chairman of the Bard
DR G Ross Roy
www.Scotsman.com
By Jim Gilchrist
1 November 2008
WHEN DR G ROSS ROY HEADED back home to Columbia, South Carolina, last month after his most recent visit to…
Exclusive interview: Gomorrah writer Roberto Saviano
Roberto Saviano
The Guardian
By John Hooper
1 November 2008
"Ciao, John," came the voice from who knows where. A few months ago, it was still possible to meet Roberto…
Beautiful vowels
Christian Bok
BBC Radio 4, Today
By Sarah Montague
30 October 2008
Eunoia is the shortest word in English containing all five vowels - and it means "beautiful thinking". It is also…
Clive James interviews Germain Greer. Yaaawn...
Germaine Greer
The Times
By Clive James
30 October 2008
Clive James takes Germaine Greer in his library for an extended interview
What State Will We Be In? - US Election Focus
Chris Patten, Matt Frei, John Pilger...
Metro
By Graeme Green
30 October 2008
How different will next week's winner be from the current President? And what does the US election's outcome mean for…
Churchill's Wonderful (double-crossing) Wizards
Nicholas Rankin
www.theinterviewonline.co.uk
By Nicola Barranger
30 October 2008
At the recent Cheltenham Literature Festival, Nicholas Rankin talks to Nicola Barranger about his latest work – Churchill’s Wizards –…
Table talk: Food writer Tessa Kiros
Tessa Kiros
The Guardian
By Rachel Holmes
28 October 2008
Cookery writer Tessa Kiros on breakfasting in -24C cold at the Arctic Circle, being serenaded by African tribespeople, and finding…
Science Weekly podcast: The Antikythera mechanism; the 1000mph car; plus the atheist bus campaign
Jo Marchant
The Guardian
27 October 2008
Jo Marchant joins the pod to talk about what some say is the world's first computer. Her book, Decoding the…
Jamaican Bible: 'It preserves the dignity of the Jamaican people'
Courtney Stewart
The Guardian
By Riazat Butt
27 October 2008
Courtney Stewart of the Bible Society of the West Indies talks to Riazat Butt about a project to translate the…
Ian McEwan on his debut opera, For You
Ian McEwan
Sunday Times
26 October 2008
With his debut effort as an opera librettist opening this week, the author of Atonement talks about his plans to…
The history boy
Niall Ferguson
The Guardian
By Aida Edemariam
25 October 2008
In the early noughties, over a period of four years and three big books, Niall Ferguson developed an argument for…
Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche answers questions about herself
Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
The Guardian
By Rosanna Greenstreet
25 October 2008
Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche on her realist father, strangely-shaped big toes and the contradictions between truth and kindness
Hollywood lives - Jackie Collins interview
Jackie Collins
www.Scotsman.com
By Lee Randall
25 October 2008
She's been a Hollywood Wife, known the odd Stud and taken her Chances, but through it all Jackie Collins has…
