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One to One: Personality: Katya Adler talks to Simon Hattenstone

12/05/2020

Personality: Katya Adler talks to Simon Hattenstone

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Katya Adler talks to Simon Hattenstone about pulling back the mask of famous personalities

Name a famous personality and Simon Hattenstone has probably interviewed them. Katya Adler talks to Simon about pulling the mask away and getting people to reveal the real them.

For the second in this interview series about personality - what it is, how it's formed and how it can change - Katya Adler talks to Simon Hattenstone, features writer at The Guardian newspaper. 
For over two decades, Simon has interviewed famous personalities, pulling back their masks to reveal the essence beneath - what motivates them, what drives them, what they are really like. Katya talks to Simon about how he tries to get under the skin of his interviewees, how the personalities of his interviewees change and what place there is in the interview for the personality of the person asking the questions. 
Producer: Camellia Sinclair

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