Media - Access Interviews

Rachel Johnson

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:51:42 +0000

She’s got the charm and the contacts. Can Boris Johnson’s feisty little sister give the sedate, genteel magazine The Lady its long-overdue makeover without lowering the tone?

Rachel Johnson

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:51:42 +0000

Rachel Johnson on the Cutting Edge film: her shock at how she's portrayed 'at her ball-breaking worst', plus her hopes for The Lady magazine and why the millions of potential readers out there should give it a go ('you may be surprised'!)

Paul Slavin

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:51:42 +0000

Paul Slavin reveals plans in interview, as US TV follows newspapers in putting content behind a paywall. ABC News Digital executives are currently putting together a formal paywall strategy with expectations of having some concrete ideas for ways to charge consumers by the summer, said Paul Slavin, the unit's senior vice-president, in an interview with paidContent.

Nick Jones

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:51:42 +0000

Soho House founder Nick Jones is out to crack Hollywood, but there will be no concessions to celebrity. Once, during a pre-Oscar party at Soho House in LA, I walked in on Drew Barrymore swapping clothes with Cameron Diaz in the Ladies. Back then, the members club was a chaotic pop-up, housed in the freshly bought top floor of a West Hollywood office block - but still nearly every A list celebrity wandered through its unmarked doors during Oscar week.

Jeremy Darroch

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:51:42 +0000

BSkyB boss Jeremy Darroch is standing up straight, tapping into his computer while overlooking a dreary business park in the West London suburb of Isleworth. No polished walnut desk and gilt-edged paintings in this glass-walled office. As befits a media executive, an open-necked Darroch uses a waist-height ergonomic desk with no chair to conduct his business.

Jop van Bennekom and Gert Jonkers

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:51:42 +0000

They started with a porn magazine. Then came a much-imitated men's style bible. As the Dutch duo behind 'Fantastic Man' launch a sister title, Caroline Roux finds out how they gave print an original gloss. This morning, I started my day in the local Pret A Manger huddled over a skinny latte and a gay porn magazine called Butt. I can't think of many porn mags, gay or straight, that I'd be happy to read at 8.30am in Pret, if at all. But then Butt, with its apparently unpretentious Courier typeface, small format and smiling cover boy isn't really like the rest. Did I mention that it's printed on blushing pink paper too?

Martha Lane Fox

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:51:42 +0000

a tool. Now I know it can change society' The co-founder of lastminute.com made a fortune in the dotcom boom – then nearly died in a car crash. Now the Government pays her to get us using the web

Piers Morgan

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:51:42 +0000

Piers Morgan was shocked by the ladies of Soho... Where do you live in London? Kensington. What was the last play you saw in London? The History Boys at The National back when James Corden was doing his serious acting bit. I thought he was terrific. Amazing cast and probably the best play I've ever seen.

Nick Jones

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:51:42 +0000

Nick Jones is climbing over wooden planks and trying...

Barbara Want

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:51:42 +0000

Barbara Want has written a searing account of losing her husband BBC broadcaster Nick Clarke to cancer.

Sir Michael Lyons

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:51:42 +0000

The BBC's Chairman Sir Michael Lyons says that the BBC "cannot continue to grow forever". Interviewed by Today presenter John Humphrys, Sir Michael added that the corporation's proposed new strategy, outlined yesterday by its director general Mark Thompson, is "attractive".

Sergey Brin and Larry Pag

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:51:42 +0000

The world's most successful search engine makes obscene profits, snoops on our every electronic movement and helped China censor its citizens. New Yorker magazine's business columnist Ken Auletta gained rare access to its billionaire founders to ask: Is their empire turning nasty?

Kimberly Quinn

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:51:42 +0000

In 2004 Spectator publisher Kimberly Quinn suffered a high-profile humiliation following her scandalous affair with the then Home Secretary David Blunkett. But with her husband’s support and her reinvention as a children’s author, she is finally moving on. Here, in her first interview since what she calls her ‘hubris nemesis’, she talks to Catherine O’Brien about ‘rebuilding a different kind of life’

Luke Johnson

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:51:42 +0000

Serial entrepreneur turned Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson likes to call himself a maverick, but isn’t that a stretch when you’re burrowing ever deeper into the heart of the Establishment?

Piers Morgan

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:51:42 +0000

With a hit show in America and a TV interview with Gordon Brown recently broadcast in the UK, the former editor is riding high on both sides of the Atlantic. So why does he think the Guardian is out to get him?

Frank Skinner

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:51:42 +0000

The comedian talks about how he lost his spot in the schedules, and why it's good to be back with new TV and radio shows

Max Hastings

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:51:42 +0000

The former Fleet Street editor and scourge of ‘wimps’ Max Hastings breaks his silence on his greatest struggle — with his family Imagine a noisy, gallumphing schoolboy who dashes round shouting “Golly! Gosh! Come on chaps!” — but imagine him 6ft 5in tall with a voice that can carry across grouse moors, aged 64. Sir Max Hastings claims to have grown up finally, but I wouldn’t be so sure.

Luke Johnson

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:51:42 +0000

Even the Pizza Express entrepreneur thought his appointment as Channel 4 chairman was 'brave'. Luke Johnson, the multi-millionaire restaurant entrepreneur and Channel 4 chairman, arrives at the broadcaster's headquarters carrying our lunch in a paper bag. Having promised food, he had decided to pop out for some "proper" sandwiches.

Luke Johnson

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:51:42 +0000

Luke Johnson comes with a reputation. Bright, young, media-smart, a loner who made his reputation carving out the deal that turned Pizza Express into one of Britain's most successful restaurant chains, he circles the business pages like a carrion crow, picking at bits of companies, gobbling pieces up, looking for opportunities. Others, drawn by his name, follow him here and there, into a new start-up, behind a new investment vehicle. This lure of the name is acute, especially as he reinforces it with a column he writes for a Sunday newspaper.

Luke Johnson

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:51:42 +0000

Luke Johnson, Chairman of Channel 4, takes part in a candid and open interview and shares his opinions on all aspects of the television industry.