Interviews

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George Orwell, Jimi Hendrix and Grosvenor Square: interview with John Newsinger

RH Can you tell me something about your own background?

JN Well, I come off a council estate and my parents were both working in industry. My dad was a labourer, my mum was a machinist. I went to a grammar school then I went to university. I worked in industry for a number of years. I was a schoolteacher for 14 years and I’ve been an academic for 23 years. I’m retired but I’m still on the university’s books for one day a week. ......

Q&A with John Peel

Interview, London, 6 March 1985.

The charisma chronicles: interview with Godfrey Hodgson

In the depths of Watergate The Observer cruelly reprinted a picture taken a dozen years earlier: the President and his wife on the steps of Airforce One; JFK tanned and grinning broadly, Mrs Kennedy uncharacteristically demure.  A movie star couple and a brutal contrast with the muttering, beleaguered, dark-featured Nixon.

The Hill of Dreams: Anna Dillon - Oxfordshire landscape artist

Knowing the work before meeting the artist you might expect something completely different from Anna Dillon.  The landscape is alive in her paintings: striations, undulations, furrows, hills curving, receding to the horizon, rendered in vibrant colours with great sureness of touch.  Created by a rather fey hippy with clunky wooden bracelets who will talk about ley lines?

Edward Upward interview

Sandown, Isle of Wight, 27 March 1997

Goodbye to Berlin

Welshness and the human condition: interview with Christopher Meredith

Christopher Meredith looked drawn, grey eyes red-rimmed.  When we met in Abergavenny though he was convivial and friendly.  The interview was nearly three hours and he talked for half an hour before and an hour afterwards.

The history man: interview with director Justin Hardy

By Roger Howe

You know what to expect from the BBC: a ‘multicultural re-imagining’ of The Dam Busters in which Guy Gibson is a black guy with a white dog called Honky.

Q&A with Pauline Sutcliffe

Interview, London, 1 July 1990

Andrey Kurkov among the Presidents

Kyiv (Kiev), like the capital of an empire that never existed, a great city of rolling hills and sweeping vistas, golden domes, broad boulevards and shiny modern buildings. A European capital with obedient pedestrians and brazen BMWs driving on the pavement.

Q&A with George Edwards

Professor George C. Edwards III, visiting scholar, expert on the US presidency, interviewed, Oxford, 25 April 2013

Liz Fenwick interview

Liz Fenwick has topped the summer bestseller list with her latest Cornish romance. The River Between Us has taken the American-born author, who now lives on the Lizard peninsula, into a corner of the Duchy she admits she does not know.