Product Description

Geoffrey Boycott, James Hewitt, Elton John, Clive James, Jeffrey Archer, Max Clifford, Des Lynam, Tony Parsons, Tim Rice, Michael Holroyd, Nigel Dempster, Michael Parkinson, Richard Dawkins, Seamsu Heaney, Stephen Hawking, Steven Spielberg, The Dalai Lama and Henry Kissinger are some of Nigel Farndale's 50 subjects in this first collection of his interviews from the "Sunday Telegraph Magazine".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #904298 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-18
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 28 pages

Review
'Mr Farndale has a lot of explaining to do.' - Michael Parkinson 'Both Elton and myself feel very hurt and let down.' Simon Prytherch, Sir Elton John's publicist 'He thinks I'm soggy and too nice does he? Well tell him the next time I see him I'm going to punch him on the nose.' - Sir Tim Rice 'Oh God! This wouldn't be one of those profiles where you try to figure him out, would it?' - Arnold Schwarzenegger's publicist

Michael Hall, Country Life
"Farndale excels thanks to a masterly sense of balance — he neither hero worships nor wields the hatchet."

Anne Chisholm, Sunday Telegraph
"Farndale is one of the most dangerously skilful and perceptive interviewers at work today. This is a small classic, funny, ironic and merciless."

Customer Reviews

Not your average interview...
This is a seductive collection of interviews with a stunning list of people we would all like to get to know in this way. Farndale encapsulates each person and their meeting with a fascinating and somewhat sideways look at them. It's interesting that many of the interviewees were angry about the interview when published, even though I have not read one that is nasty about its subject. I suspect the real problem is that Farndale gets to the real person, no matter how hard they try to hide, and exposes them (always sympathetically) in the interview. Entertainingly laced with judgements on the interviewee made by other people, self-revealing remarks the interviewee would probably rather forget, and just enough of Farndale's own reactions to bring him to life. It makes perfect bed-time reading, each interview just the right length, though I found it difficult to stop at just one.