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Here you will find high quality audio, and occasionally video, interviews with authors, playwrights and cultural movers and shakers.

In these intimate one-to-one encounters, we hear “from the horse’s mouth” not just about the work in question but any other interesting projects on the horizon. Look out for other notable interviews on other pages as well.


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Kamila Shamsie

From Nagasaki to 9/11, Kamila Shamsie talks to Merilyn Harris about her fifth novel Burnt Shadows, a gripping epic in which the heroine survives 60 years of modern history

 

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Amanda Craig

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 and immigrant population.

 

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Edward Hall

Passionate about his work, the famous son of an even more famous theatre director (Sir Peter) Edward talks how theatre is the “last great debating arena”.

 

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Yaba Badoe

A debut novel for the British Ghanaian writer, True Murder tells of a dark childhood in an apparently safe Devon boarding school.

 

 

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Sarah Dunant

Sarah Dunant’s third novel in her Renaissance trilogy is set in a convent in 16th Century Italy. As she tells Nicola Barranger, Sacred Hearts is a account of convent life at a time when up to 50% of Italian noblewomen were forced to enter a convent, living and praying for the rest of their lives with in an enclosed and highly disciplined community of women.

 

Sacred Hearts tells how the well-ordered routine is completely disrupted when a 15 year old enters the convent against her will and threatens to destroy the disciplined female society.

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Joan Bakewell

In an extended interview, the veteran journalist and TV & Radio presenter tells Nicola Barranger about the plot and inspiration behind her debut novel All the Nice Girls.

 

Set in wartime Liverpool, a local girls’ school "adopts" a ship with consequences as unexpected and turbulent as the events of the time.

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Louis de Bernières

Author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and Birds without Wings discusses work in progress with The Interview Online.

 

 

Listen to the interview to find out about his love of poetry and the plans for his next epic.

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