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The world’s leading thinkers, politicians and cultural figures interviewed by the BBC

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.

***The Interview is no longer broadcast on-air but you can listen to our archive below.***

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: 13/06/2009 Tracey Emin

13/06/2009

13/06/2009 Tracey Emin

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Carrie Gracie talks to controversial British artist Tracey Emin on The Interview.

Tracey Emin is a British artist who has courted controversy for the way she has made her private life public in her art. Carrie Gracie asks her what lies behind it all.

Tracey Emin is a British artist who has courted controversy for the way she has made her private life public.

Her work includes a tent sewn with the names of everyone she had slept with and a display of her unmade bed complete with empty alcohol bottles, cigarette butts and other remnants of her life. 

Her latest show has an animation of a woman masturbating. 

Carrie Gracie asks her what lies behind it all.

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