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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: 18/03/2011 Art Spiegelman: Art Spiegelman, Cartoonist

Art Spiegelman, Cartoonist

18/03/2011 Art Spiegelman

18/03/2011 Art Spiegelman: Art Spiegelman, Cartoonist

BBC World Service - The Interview Archive, Art Spiegelman, Cartoonist

The man who turned his life into cartoons

Another chance to hear Art Spiegelman who talked to Lyse Doucet about his life and his art back in 2009.

To mark the end of The Interview, which finishes at the end of the month, here is another chance to hear Art Spiegelman who has turned his life into cartoons. 

His subjects are dark: his own mental breakdown, his parents' experience of the Nazi concentration camps, and the 9/11 attacks on New York. 

He talked to Lyse Doucet about his life and his art back in 2009.

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