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High Profile

These are the 237 in-depth interviews I commissioned and edited (and in some cases conducted*) for Third Way between 1993 and 2016:

Academia
John Carey
Noam Chomsky
Terry Eagleton
Niall Ferguson*
Noreena Hertz
Oliver James
Bjørn Lomborg*
Camille Paglia
Amartya Sen
Robert Skidelsky
Joseph Stiglitz
Slavoj Zizek

Activism
Franny Armstrong*
Camila Batmanghelidjh
Phillip Blond
Steve Chalke*
Shami Chakrabarti
Claire Fox*
Maurice Glasman
Zac Goldsmith*
Tanni Grey-Thompson
Bianca Jagger*
Tony Juniper*
Helena Kennedy
Bruce Kent
Satish Kumar
Annie Lennox
Ellen MacArthur
Michael Mansfield
Francesca Martinez
Peter Melchett
George Monbiot
Kumi Naidoo*
Jonathon Porritt*
Anita Roddick*
Iqbal Sacranie
Gloria Steinem
Tanni Grey-Thompson
Peter Tatchell
Mark Thomas*
Jim Wallis
Naomi Wolf

The Arts
Marina Abramovic*
Maya Angelou
Simon Armitage
Margaret Atwood
Peter Bazalgette
Billy Bragg
Melvyn Bragg
Martin Carthy
Wendy Cope
Douglas Coupland
Michael Eavis
Ben Elton
Tracey Emin
William Gibson
Antony Gormley
Peter Greenaway
Katharine Hamnett
Werner Herzog*
Susan Howatch
Armando Iannucci
Mike Leigh
Annie Lennox
Daniel Libeskind
Ken Loach
Neil MacGregor
James MacMillan
Michael Morpurgo*
Andrew Motion
Ben Okri
Terry Pratchett
Philip Pullman*
David Puttnam*
Richard Rogers
Will Self
Elif Shafak
Patti Smith
John Tavener
Sam Taylor-Wood
Fay Weldon
Jacqueline Wilson
Jeanette Winterson
Thom Yorke
Benjamin Zephaniah

The Media
Kate Adie
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Julian Baggini
Julie Burchill
Bea Campbell
Nick Cohen*
Janet Daley
Johann Hari*
Ian Hislop
Peter Hitchens
Darcus Howe
John Humphrys*
Will Hutton
Richard Ingrams
Virginia Ironside
Simon Jenkins
Owen Jones
Trevor Kavanagh
Martyn Lewis
Rod Liddle
Andrew Marr
Paul Mason
Charles Moore
Suzanne Moore
Jenni Murray
Barry Norman*
Peter Oborne
Cristina Odone
Tony Parsons
Jeremy Paxman
John Peel
Rowan Pelling
Melanie Phillips
Peter Preston
Claire Rayner
Jon Ronson
Alan Rusbridger
Jon Snow*
Mark Thompson*
Polly Toynbee
Francis Wheen
Shagufta Yaqub
Hugo Young
Toby Young

Philosophy
Alain de Botton
Daniel Dennett
Amitai Etzioni
John Gray
Charles Handy
Michael Ignatieff
Roger Scruton
Peter Singer
Mary Warnock

Politics
Gerry Adams
Douglas Alexander
Paddy Ashdown
Alan Beith*
Martin Bell*
Tony Benn
Natalie Bennett*
Tony Blair
David Blunkett
Virginia Bottomley
Andy Burnham
Vince Cable
Menzies Campbell
Lynda Chalker
Nick Clegg
Jeremy Corbyn*
Jon Cruddas
Tam Dalyell
Donald Dewar
Nadine Dorries
Iain Duncan Smith*
Nigel Farage*
Frank Field
George Galloway
Michael Gove
Nick Griffin*
Simon Hughes
John Hume
Boris Johnson
Charles Kennedy
Peter Lilley
Caroline Lucas*
Martin McGuinness
Brian Mawhinney
Theresa May
Andrew Mitchell
Mo Mowlam
Ian Paisley
Chris Patten
Michael Portillo
Clare Short
Dennis Skinner
Chris Smith
David Trimble
Sayeeda Warsi*
Tom Watson*
Ann Widdecombe
David Willetts
Shirley Williams

Religion
Peter Akinola
Zaki Badawi
Omar Bakri
Rob Bell
George Carey*
Matthew Fox
John Habgood
Stanley Hauerwas
Richard Holloway
David Jenkins
Hans Küng
Jürgen Moltmann
Cormac Murphy-O’Connor*
Michael Nazir-Ali*
Julia Neuberger
Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Tariq Ramadan
Gene Robinson
Mona Siddiqui
Jonathan Sacks
David Sheppard
Indarjit Singh
John Stott
Desmond Tutu
Rowan Williams

Science
Susan Blackmore
Francis Collins
Paul Davies
Richard Dawkins
Jane Goodall*
Susan Greenfield
Steve Jones
James Lovelock
Roger Penrose
Steven Pinker
Martin Rees
Steven Weinberg
E O Wilson
Robert Winston
Lewis Wolpert

Others
Richard Branson
Deepak Chopra
Max Clifford
Paulo Coelho
General Sir Mike Jackson*
President Mary McAleese
Lord Mackay of Clashfern
Khalid Mish’al*
John Monks
Lord Woolf


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