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Back to SearchSelina Cadell
Selina Cadell is one of our most versatile and accomplished actresses - from French and Saunders to Chekhov on Broadway, and from Alan Bennett to Sha…
6 years, 8 months ago
Peter Tatchell
Peter Tatchell was still a teenager, living in Australia, when he started on what has been a long and headline-grabbing career of political protest. …
6 years, 9 months ago
Deborah Levy
Deborah Levy was born in South Africa; when she was five, her father was arrested as a member of the ANC and spent four years in jail. The family lef…
6 years, 9 months ago
Jock Stirrup
Lord Stirrup, former Chief of the Defence Staff, talks to Michael Berkeley about his passion for music from Renaissance motets to twenty-first-centur…
6 years, 9 months ago
Siri Hustvedt
It’s hard to sum up the extraordinary reach of Siri Hustvedt’s work. On the one hand, there are popular novels such as What I Loved and The Summer Wi…
6 years, 9 months ago
David Cannadine
David Cannadine describes himself as “staggeringly lucky”: he found what he wanted to do early in life, and it has rewarded him richly. He is one of …
6 years, 10 months ago
James Ellroy
James Ellroy has been dubbed the ‘demon dog of American crime fiction’, a label he relishes. His crime novels, fifteen to date, are international bes…
6 years, 10 months ago
Hannah Sullivan
Earlier this year, when Hannah Sullivan won the biggest prize in the poetry world, the TS Eliot Prize, the chair of the judges announced: “A star is …
6 years, 10 months ago
Peter Piot
At the age of 27, Peter Piot’s life was changed by the arrival of a special package from Africa. He was working as a researcher in a microbiology lab…
6 years, 11 months ago
James Burke
As the 50th anniversary of the moon landings approaches, James Burke talks to Michael Berkeley about the music that brings back memories of the heady…
6 years, 11 months ago