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Interviews

On the right you will find links to eight of the best I’ve done for Third Way – for which I have also interviewed

General Sir Michael Jackson, then Chief of the General Staff

• the MPs Donald (now Lord) Anderson, Alan Beith, Martin Bell, Gary Streeter and Stephen Timms and the Green MEP Caroline Lucas

Sayeeda Warsi, the youngest member of the House of Lords

• Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor

• the journalists Jon Snow and Johann Hari

• the environmental campaigners Zac Goldsmith, Tony Juniper, Tamsin Omond and Franny Armstrong

• the historian Niall Ferguson

• the human-rights activist Bianca Jagger

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

as well as, with a colleague,

Nick Griffin, chair of the British National Party

• David (now Lord) Puttnam

• the satirist Mark Thomas

• the journalist Nick Cohen

• Mark Thompson, then head of Channel 4, now director-general of the BBC

I have done some more conventional, ‘written-up’ interviews: for Sublime, of the ‘father of fair trade’, Richard Adams, the former Guantánamo prisoner Moazzam Begg and the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sheila Watt-Cloutier; and for Church Times the award-winning human-rights journalist Dina Meza.

Over the years, I have secured interviews of well over 200 public figures, either live at The Nave or in print for Third Way. The most recent of the latter (all of which I also edited) can be found online in the Third Way archive.


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George Carey

Claire Fox

Jane Goodall

John Humphrys

Khalid Mish’al

Jonathon Porritt

Philip Pullman

Anita Roddick