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Here you will find quality audio, and occasionally 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 the Library for other notable audio and video interviews.

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Polly Teale Interview

Polly Teal talks about Tennessee Williams’ first success and most autobiographical play – The Glass Menagerie

Director Polly Teal talks about Tennessee Williams' first success and most autobiographical play - The Glass Menagerie which is opening at the Salisbury Playhouse before touring.

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Stephen Unwin Interview

Stephen Unwin, artistic director of the Rose Theatre talking about A Midsummer Night's Dream starring Dame Judi Dench and directed by Sir Peter Halll

Stephen Unwin, artistic director of the Rose Theatre in Kingston upon Thames talks to Nicky Barranger about the new season which begins with a landmark production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream with Dame Judi Dench playing a regal Titania. The production is directed by Sir Peter Hall.


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Sadie Jones Interview

Following the huge success of her debut novel The Outcast (shortlisted for 2008 Orange Prize) Sadie Jones talks about her latest and much awaited work Small Wars. In the video interview Sadie Jones explains that she didn’t really want to return to the fifties but that she realised the significant parallels between the Cyprus conflict and those in which the British army is engaged in modern times.

Following the huge success of her debut novel The Outcast (shortlisted for 2008 Orange Prize) Sadie Jones talks about her latest  and much awaited work Small Wars.

In the video interview Sadie Jones explains that she didn't really want to return to the fifties but that she realised the significant parallels between the Cyprus conflict and those in which the British army is engaged in modern times.

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.

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.

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.


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Israeli writer Assaf Gavron tells Nicky Barranger what inspired him to write an ironic novel about suicide bombings during the Intifada of 20 years ago.

Interview with Assaf Gavron

Israeli writer Assaf Gavron tells Nicky Barranger what inspired him to write an ironic novel about suicide bombings during the Intifada of 20 years ago.



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In a new video interview, Ruth Rendell explains why she still enjoys reading the grandfather of detective fiction, Sherlock Holmes.

Ruth Rendell Video

In a new video interview, Ruth Rendell explains why she still enjoys reading the grandfather of detective fiction, Sherlock Holmes.

As the publisher Viking issues a new edition of sixty adventures, Baroness Rendell of Babergh takes time out of being a working peer to talk to The Interview Online about why Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 150 years after his birth continues to please. She also talks about the differences between Holmes and Rendell's famous sleuth Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford.

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In a separate file, the famous crime writer explains in detail about the nitty-gritty of her writing routine, whether she is writing as Ruth Rendell or Barbara Vine.