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Find out what the world’s leading thinkers, politicians and cultural figures really think, as they talk about their lives for thirty minutes on The Interview.

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A half hour interview with interesting and prominent people from around the world with a great range of interests and opinions. Each week, one person is put under the spotlight by either Owen Bennett-Jones or Carrie Gracie, the two presenters on The Interview.  

They explore topical issues, personal motivation and interviewee's hopes and fears. The style is informal and conversational, but at times searching and combative when required.

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The Interview Archive: 4/04/2009 - Shahubiddin Yakub Quraishi 

4/04/2009 - Shahubiddin Yakub Quraishi 

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Shahubiddin Yakub Quraishi is one of India's three election commissioners.

Shahubiddin Yakub Quraishi talks to Owen Bennett-Jones on The Interview

Shahubiddin Yakub Quraishi is one of India's three election commissioners. 

A career official, he is keen to throw off the dusty image of his bureaucratic profession. 

He reveals that he plays guitar and keyboards in a rock band, a pursuit he says he finds most therapeutic. 

And it could be the perfect antidote to organising the hundreds of millions of voters who go to the polls this month in the world's biggest elections.

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