Great interviews of the 20th century
Bill Clinton: 'You had to assume there was going to be some blowback'
Former US president Bill Clinton discusses climate change, Kyoto, AIDS and the American election
'There's nothing better in life than diamonds'
'Before the year ended, he said, he would be a hero or a martyr'
This interview of Fidel Castro by Herbert Matthews took place in the Sierra Maestra, Cuba, February 16 1957. It was published in the New York Times, February 24 1957.
'You're getting a totally false impression of me'
A merry dance
Michael White: This interview is like a fragment of Etruscan pottery, authentic early Maggie Thatcher
The butterfly crusher
Jay McInerney: Michel Mok's interview with Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most famous hatchet jobs of all time. Or at least, that's how I remembered it, and that's how Fitzgerald's biographers usually characterise it.
'One blow after another ... and finally something snapped'
This is an edited version of "The Other Side of Paradise, Scott Fitzgerald, 40, Engulfed in Despair" by Michel Mok, first published in the New York Post, September 25 1936.
'No room for the alien, no use for the wastrel'
A distorted report on the true Hitler
Searching for a way to break the rules
'Say something outrageous'
'When you're famous you run into human nature in a raw kind of way'
'One continuous accident mounting on top of another'
An edited extract from Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester in 1963, 1966 and 1979.
My way into art
Damien Hirst: When I first read David Sylvester's interviews with Francis Bacon at the bushy-tailed, bright-eyed age of 16, they changed my life.
'We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense'
Edited version of Melvyn Bragg's interview of Dennis Potter on March 15 1994. It was broadcast by Channel 4 on April 5 1994.
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