Interviews

On the right you’ll find links to some that I did for
Third Way – for which I also interviewed

• the film director Werner Herzog

• the historian Niall Ferguson

• the human-rights activist Bianca Jagger

• the children’s writer Michael Morpurgo

• the social entrepreneur Steve Chalke

• General Sir Michael Jackson, then Chief of the General Staff

• the journalists Johann Hari and Jon Snow

• the MPs Donald (later Lord) Anderson, Alan Beith, Martin Bell, Jeremy Corbyn, Iain Duncan Smith, Gary Streeter, Stephen Timms and Tom Watson, and the then MEP Caroline Lucas

• Sayeeda Warsi, the youngest member of the House of Lords

• Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, Archbishop George Carey and Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali

• the eco-activists Jonathon Porritt, Franny Armstrong, Kumi Naidoo, Zac Goldsmith, Tony Juniper and Tamsin Omond, and the then leader of the Green Party, Natalie Bennett

• the former All Black Va’aiga ‘Inga the Winger’ Tuigamala

as well as, with a colleague,

• the performance artist Marina Abramovic

• Mark Thompson, then head of Channel 4

• David (now Lord) Puttnam

• the satirist Mark Thomas

• the journalists Nick Cohen and Simon Jenkins

• Nick Griffin of the British National Party

These were all part of the High Profile series of cover interviews that I commissioned and edited for Third Way for 23 years.

Since the magazine folded in early 2016, I have continued the series as an independent venture called High Profiles, for which I have interviewed the activists Polly Higgins, Alastair McIntosh, Bill McKibben and Salma Yaqoob and the politician Dominic Grieve.


I have done more conventional, ‘written-up’ interviews: for Sublime, of the ‘father of fair trade’, Richard Adams, the former Guantánamo prisoner Moazzam Begg and the Inuit nominee for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Sheila Watt-Cloutier; and for Church Times the multi-award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn, the dissident Jewish blogger Robert Cohen, the award-winning human-rights journalist Dina Meza and the award-winning talkshow presenter James O’Brien.


Over the years, I have secured interviews of almost 300 public figures, whether live at The Nave or in print for Third Way or published online by High Profiles.

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