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The Interview Online

Audio, slideshow and video interviews with authors, playwrights and other creative artists.

In these intimate one-to-one conversations, we hear "from the horse's mouth" not just about the work in question but any other interesting projects on the horizon.

Browse our Libraries for the Collection of video and slideshow interviews

 



Latest Interview

Carsten Jensen Interview

Audio slideshow interview with Danish Author Carsten Jensen

Carsten Jensen talks to The Interview Online about his now famous, epic novel,  We, the Drowned which has already won the Danske Banks Litteraturpris, the Danish equivalent of The Man Booker Prize.

Blogpost - Interviewing Carsten Jensen

 

Selected as one of the Financial Times Best Books of the Year

 

 


Featured Interview

Margaret Forster Interview

What rôle a Grandmother? Margaret Forster talks to Nicola Barranger about her latest novel – Isa and May which examines the rôle of grandmothers in the family.

What rôle a Grandmother?

Margaret Forster talks to Nicola Barranger about her latest novel - Isa and May which examines the rôle of grandmothers in the family.

Listen to hear Margaret Forster discuss whether or not we have a right to dig up our ancestors' past or indeed whether they have the right to keep things secret from us.

 

Blogpost - Meeting Margaret Forster


Featured Interview

Jann Parry Interview

Jann Parry discusses the legacy left by the great British ballet choreographer Kenneth MacMillan. A work 10 years in the writing, she recently published Different Drummer. CONGRATULATIONS TO JANN PARRY - winner of the 2009 Theatre Book Prize

Jann Parry discusses the legacy left by the great British choreographer Kenneth MacMillan in her book Different Drummer recently published by Faber.

 

New extracts added from extended interview with Jann Parry.


CONGRATULATIONS TO JANN PARRY - winner of the 2009 Theatre Book Prize

Blake Morrison, one of the UK’s best loved writers , talks to The Interview Online about his latest novel The Last Weekend – two university friends, Ian & Ollie plan a weekend away with their partners.

Blake Morrison Interview

Blake Morrison, one of the UK's best loved writers (and author of the much acclaimed And When did you Last see your Father?)  talks to The Interview Online about his latest novel The Last Weekend - two university friends, Ian & Ollie plan a weekend away with their partners.

 

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Read the Blogpost about interviewing Blake Morrison

 


Featured Interview

Aminatta Forna’s latest novel The Memory of Love has a richly drawn cast of characters set in a country which we are to presume is Sierra Leone west Africa. In this video interview she talks about the themes of love, mental health issues in a country torn apart by war and the role well intentioned aid workers Video interview 5’19

Aminatta Forna Interview

Aminatta Forna's latest novel The Memory of Love has a richly drawn cast of characters set in a country which we are to presume is Sierra Leone west Africa. In this video interview she talks about the themes of love, mental health issues in a country torn apart by war and the role well intentioned aid workers.

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Blogpost - Meeting Aminatta Forna

 

Selected as one of the Financial Times Best Books of the Year



Featured Interview

Amanda Craig’s new novel Hearts & Minds is set in bang-up-to date London, with strong characters and a plot that could be happening amongst today’s chattering classes.

Amanda Craig Interview

In an audio slideshow Amanda Craig talks about her rich cast of characters in her new book Hearts and Minds and how easy it is for the establishment to turn a blind eye to the underclasses propping up British society.

 

 

HEARTS & MINDS was  longlisted for the  Orange Prize for fiction  2010