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Gavin Esler talks to author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She is a 29-year old Nigerian writer, whose latest novel won the Orange Prize for fiction this year. Show more
Gavin Esler talks to Irish poet Seamus Heaney about his decision to not take sides in the Troubles and his belief that poetry can offer comfort in a world blighted by violence. Show more
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Gavin Esler talks to potter Grayson Perry, one of Britain's most high profile artists. He explains why he actively embraces the 'transvestite potter' label. Show more
Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, talks to Gavin Esler about what he learned from his years of struggle. Show more
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Gavin Esler talks to author Kiran Desai. Kiran exploded onto the world literary scene winning the Booker Prize for fiction with her novel The Inheritance of Loss. Show more
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Gavin Esler talks to film director John Boorman. He tells Gavin why his film, The Tiger's Tail, depicts a country gripped by greed, corruption and materialism. Show more
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A 2006 interview in which Gavin Esler talks to Hollywood actor Patrick Swayze, best known for the films Ghost and Dirty Dancing, who has died following a long battle with cancer. Show more
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Gavin Esler talks to Marie Helvin, one of the most photographed faces of the 1970s and 1980s who has decided to return to modelling in her fifties in a notoriously ageist industry. Show more
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Brenda Blethyn tells Gavin Esler how she built herself an acting career - an idea she admits seemed 'far fetched' to an impoverished youngster from Ramsgate after the war.
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Razia Iqbal interviews Joyce Carol Oates, one of America's most prolific writers. As a chronicler of the American experience, what does she think America has learned about itself? Show more
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It's been 30 years since the Bee Gees released Saturday Night Fever. Robin Gibb talks about the loss of his brother and why the Bee Gees are still popular today. Show more
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An interview with Amjad Ali Khan, one of India's best-known classical musicians and an acknowledged master of the sarod, a fretless string instrument that is very difficult to play. Show more
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Razia Iqbal talks to Charles Correa, India's most renowned architect and urban planner. He explains why Indian cities offer the country's best hope for the future.