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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: 16/01/10 The Interview with Seamus Heaney: Seamus Heaney, Poet

16/01/10 The Interview with Seamus Heaney

16/01/10 The Interview with Seamus Heaney: Seamus Heaney, Poet

Seamus Heaney, Poet

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Poet Seamus Heaney talks about what made poetry for his generation in Northern Ireland

Lawrence Pollard talks to the Nobel-prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney about writing amid the 30 years of political violence in his native Northern Ireland

Seamus Heaney grew up as part of the Catholic minority in Northern Ireland but was always cautious about taking sides in his poetry. Now aged 70, he tells Lawrence Pollard how difficult it was to negotiate a path. He describes how ideas for poems can come to him at any moment and how he always returns in his thoughts to the farmhouse of his childhood called Mossbawn.

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