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Secrets of the Celebrity Interview
How feature writers get the famous to say things they wish they hadn’t.
The set-piece interview with a famous face is a type of journalism that newspapers do uniquely well. Andrea Catherwood meets three masters of the art and asks how they get their interviewees to say things they often wish they hadn't.
Guests: Charlotte Edwardes, columnist and feature writer for The Sunday Times, Hadley Freeman, columnist and feature writer for The Guardian, and Ginny Dougary, award-winning interviewer for newspapers all over the world.
Producer: Richard Hooper
Studio Engineer: Tim Heffer
Last on
Wed 29 Apr 202021:30
BBC Radio 4
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- Wed 29 Apr 202016:00BBC Radio 4
- Wed 29 Apr 202021:30BBC Radio 4
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