Jennifer Lawrence
13 Nov 2025
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Jennifer Lawrence's breakthrough role in the 2010 drama Winter’s Bone secured her first Academy Aw...
Rufus Wainwright
06 Nov 2025
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Rufus Wainwright is a singer-songwriter and composer renowned for his distinctive voice and the thea...
Mark Ronson
30 Oct 2025
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Having spent his early years in London, Mark Ronson grew up in Manhattan, began working as a DJ as a...
Rose Tremain
23 Oct 2025
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Dame Rose Tremain is one of Britain’s most prolific and popular writers, having written 17 novels ...
Thomas Adès
16 Oct 2025
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One of the most revered and prolific British classical musicians, Thomas Adès made his name with hi...
Jonathan Anderson
09 Oct 2025
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Jonathan Anderson was appointed as creative director of the French fashion house Dior in March 2025,...
Jackie Kay
02 Oct 2025
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Jackie Kay is one of the best known and most popular Scottish literary figures. A poet and novelist,...
Kerry James Marshall
25 Sep 2025
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American artist Kerry James Marshall is one of the world’s most important living painters. Marshal...
Alicia Vikander
18 Sep 2025
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Swedish-born Alicia Vikander won global acclaim in 2015 for playing Vera Britten in Testament Of You...
Alison Balsom
11 Sep 2025
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Classical trumpeter Alison Balsom talks to John Wilson about the most significant influences and exp...
Eric Idle
04 Sep 2025
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Comedian, writer, musician and actor Eric Idle talks to John Wilson about his creative influences. A...
Anselm Kiefer
10 Jul 2025
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Anselm Kiefer is one of the world’s greatest living artists. Born in Germany at the end of the Sec...
Katherine Rundell
03 Jul 2025
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Children’s writer and academic Katherine Rundell is the multi-million selling author of adventure ...
Steve Reich
26 Jun 2025
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Composer Steve Reich is one of the most influential musicians of modern times. In the 1960s he helpe...
Jenny Saville
19 Jun 2025
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Painter Jenny Saville, renowned for her large-scale portraits of fleshy, naked women, made her name ...
Alan Menken
12 Jun 2025
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Composer Alan Menken is the winner of more Academy Awards in competitive categories than any other l...
Gillian Anderson
05 Jun 2025
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Gillian Anderson’s breakthrough television role in the sci-fi series The X Files made her a global...
Pete Townshend
29 May 2025
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Pete Townshend is the songwriter, guitarist and co-founder of The Who. The band first stormed the po...
James Rhodes
22 May 2025
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Pianist James Rhodes was a relative latecomer to a professional music, and was 30 when he performed ...
Doris Salcedo
15 May 2025
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Since the late 1980s, Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has made work in response to conflict and polit...
Sheku Kanneh-Mason
08 May 2025
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Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason was born in Nottingham in 1999 into a big musical family. He and his six...
Wayne McGregor
01 May 2025
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Choreographer Sir Wayne McGregor is one of the most acclaimed, innovative and influential figures in...
Simon Russell Beale
24 Apr 2025
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Actor Sir Simon Russell Beale is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest actors of his generation. H...
Maggie O'Farrell
17 Apr 2025
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Maggie O’Farrell is the author of nine novels. Her debut, After You’d Gone, was published 25 yea...
Abi Morgan
10 Apr 2025
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Screenwriter and playwright Abi Morgan has worked across a diverse array of themes and genres for mo...
Theaster Gates
20 Feb 2025
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The internationally acclaimed and hugely influential artist Theaster Gates was born, raised and work...
David Hare
13 Feb 2025
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The premiere of David Hare’s play Plenty at the National Theatre in 1978 marked him out as one of ...
Cynthia Erivo
06 Feb 2025
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Born and raised in south London, Cynthia Erivo made her name with musical theatre in London, starrin...
Marin Alsop
30 Jan 2025
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American conductor Marin Alsop was the first woman to lead major orchestras in the UK, South America...
Robert Harris
23 Jan 2025
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Having worked as a BBC television journalist, and as political editor for the Observer newspaper, Ro...
James Ivory
16 Jan 2025
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James Ivory formed the filmmaking company Merchant Ivory with producer Ismail Merchant and the write...
Isabel Allende
09 Jan 2025
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Chilean author Isabel Allende became an international literary star after the publication of her 198...
Thelma Schoonmaker
07 Nov 2024
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Thelma Schoonmaker has, for over five decades, been Martin Scorsese’s cutting room collaborator. H...
Bill Nighy
31 Oct 2024
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A star of stage and screen, Bill Nighy has enjoyed a fifty year career and is now among Britain’s ...
Julie Taymor
24 Oct 2024
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Theatre, opera and film director Julie Taymor is regarded as one of the most imaginative directors a...
Hanif Kureishi
17 Oct 2024
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Novelist, playwright and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi's first screenplay, My Beautiful Launderette br...
Nile Rodgers
10 Oct 2024
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Nile Rodgers is one of the most successful and influential figures in popular music. As a songwriter...
Margaret Drabble
03 Oct 2024
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The novelist, biographer and critic Dame Margaret Drabble published her debut novel in 1963. She qui...
Marina Abramović
26 Sep 2024
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For over more than five decades the Serbian conceptual and performance artist Marina Abramović has...
Peter Kosminsky
19 Sep 2024
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Having started out as a current affairs journalist, Peter Kosminsky made his name by telling contemp...
Marlon James
12 Sep 2024
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Marlon James made his name in 2014 with A Brief History Of Seven Killings, a novel which interweaves...
Kiri Te Kanawa
05 Sep 2024
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The New Zealand born opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is one of the world's greatest sopranos. She e...
Lee Child
29 Aug 2024
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Lee Child created his tough guy protagonist Jack Reacher, a former military policeman who roams Amer...
Peter Blake
04 Jul 2024
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The grandfather of British Pop Art, Sir Peter Blake is one of most influential and popular artists o...
Simon McBurney
27 Jun 2024
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Director and actor Simon McBurney, one of the founders of the ground breaking theatre company Compli...
Salman Rushdie
20 Jun 2024
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One of the world’s greatest novelists, Salman Rushdie has won many prestigious international liter...
Judy Chicago
13 Jun 2024
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John Wilson's guest is the pioneering American artist, author and educator Judy Chicago. Having run ...
Neil Jordan
06 Jun 2024
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Oscar-winning director, screenwriter and novelist Neil Jordan made his name with the 1984 movie The ...
Zadie Smith
30 May 2024
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Zadie Smith grew up in north west London and studied English at Cambridge University. After a publis...
Lily Allen
23 May 2024
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Renowned for the autobiographical candour of her lyrics, Lily Allen has sung about the pitfalls of f...
John Adams
16 May 2024
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The work of composer and conductor John Adams blends the rhythmic vitality of Minimalism with late-R...
Anne Enright
09 May 2024
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Irish novelist Anne Enright is the author of seven novels, including The Gathering, winner of the Bo...
Sebastião Salgado
02 May 2024
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Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado is best known for his captivating black and white photogra...
Antony Gormley
25 Apr 2024
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For over forty years, the sculptor Sir Antony Gormley has been using his own body as the basis for h...
Sam Taylor-Johnson
18 Apr 2024
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As part of the so-called Britart generation of the early 1990’s, artist Sam Taylor-Wood, as she wa...
Antonio Pappano
11 Apr 2024
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Sir Antonio Pappano is one of the world’s most acclaimed conductors. He started work at the age of...
Michael Palin
05 Apr 2024
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John Wilson talks to actor, comedian, broadcaster and writer Sir Michael Palin. A founding member of...
Yorgos Lanthimos
10 Feb 2024
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Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos first emerged as part the so-called ‘weird wave’ of Greek cinema, and...
Juliette Binoche
03 Feb 2024
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French actor Juliette Binoche is known for her portrayal of emotionally complex characters. Over a f...
Frank Auerbach
27 Jan 2024
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A rare interview with Frank Auerbach, one of the world’s greatest living painters. At 92 years old...
Boy George
20 Jan 2024
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Born George O'Dowd, Boy George shot to pop stardom in 1982 as frontman with the band Culture Club an...
Patricia Cornwell
13 Jan 2024
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Patricia Cornwell’s books have sold over 120 million copies in thirty-six languages in over 120 co...
Andrew Scott
06 Jan 2024
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Andrew Scott won a BAFTA as the evil Moriarty in Sherlock, but is equally loved for a divine televis...
Nigel Kennedy
30 Dec 2023
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John Wilson's guest is the violinist Nigel Kennedy. A prodigy whose childhood talents were nurtured ...
Judi Dench
04 Nov 2023
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Dame Judi Dench reflects on her career playing Shakespearean roles on stage and screen across seven ...
Werner Herzog
28 Oct 2023
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Werner Herzog is one of the most idiosyncratic, original and prolific filmmakers of modern times, ha...
Bernie Taupin
21 Oct 2023
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Lyricist Bernie Taupin is one half of one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of all tim...
George the Poet
14 Oct 2023
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Born George Mpanga, George the Poet is a British spoken-word artist and podcast host. Having started...
Matthew Bourne
07 Oct 2023
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One of the world’s most successful living choreographers, Sir Matthew Bourne shook up classical ba...
Lucy Prebble
30 Sep 2023
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Renowned for tackling big themes on stage, Lucy Prebble made her name as a playwright in her mid-twe...
Michael Rosen
23 Sep 2023
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Author, poet and performer Michael Rosen is one of Britain’s best loved and most prolific children...
Angélique Kidjo
16 Sep 2023
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Angélique Kidjo, often described as "the queen of African music", has recorded fifteen albums, work...
Edmund de Waal
09 Sep 2023
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One of the world’s most acclaimed ceramicists, Edmund de Waal is renowned for simple, hand-made po...
Leïla Slimani
02 Sep 2023
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French Moroccan author Leïla Slimani won critical acclaim and a reputation as an author of bold &am...
Sally Potter
19 Aug 2023
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Sally Potter is a ground-breaking film-maker, best known for her bold 1992 adaptation of Virginia Wo...
Stephen Fry
12 Aug 2023
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Actor, writer, comedian and broadcaster Stephen Fry first made his name as a comic performer as a Ca...
Ian McEwan
17 Jun 2023
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Ian McEwan made his name in the 1970s with short stories and slim novels that explored the darker as...
Jeremy Deller
10 Jun 2023
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Winner of the Turner Prize in 2004 and Britain’s official representative at the 2013 Venice Bienna...
Errollyn Wallen
03 Jun 2023
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Errollyn Wallen is one of Britain's most acclaimed and widely performed contemporary composers. Born...
Nicole Farhi
27 May 2023
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John Wilson talks to fashion designer and sculptor Nicole Farhi. Born in the south of France, she de...
Nick Cave
20 May 2023
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Nick Cave, the Australian born singer-songwriter and author, reveals the formative influences and ex...
Gilbert & George
13 May 2023
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An inseparable duo for over 55 years, Gilbert Prousch and George Passmore are the artistic couple kn...
Baaba Maal
06 May 2023
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Now one of West Africa’s most internationally acclaimed musicians, Baaba Maal trained at a Paris c...
Donna Leon
29 Apr 2023
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The internationally bestselling crime writer Donna Leon talks to John Wilson about her career. Altho...
Sally Wainwright
22 Apr 2023
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Award-winning television dramatist and director Sally Wainwright talks to John Wilson about her form...
Linton Kwesi Johnson
15 Apr 2023
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Reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson reveals the influences and experiences that inspired his own creati...
Martin Parr
08 Apr 2023
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John Wilson talks to photographer Martin Parr about the formative influences and experiences that in...
Margaret Atwood
01 Apr 2023
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Margaret Atwood talks to John Wilson about the formative influences and experiences that shaped her ...
Alejandro Iñárritu
11 Feb 2023
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Mexican-born filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu talks to John Wilson about his cultural influe...
Rachel Whiteread
04 Feb 2023
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John Wilson speaks to internationally acclaimed artist Dame Rachel Whiteread about the influences o...
Eliza Carthy
28 Jan 2023
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Musician Eliza Carthy was born into an English folk dynasty. The daughter of acclaimed folk singers ...
Damien Chazelle
21 Jan 2023
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Oscar-winning film-maker Damien Chazelle talks to John Wilson about his career and cultural influenc...
Stephen Hough
14 Jan 2023
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The British born musician, composer and writer Stephen Hough grew up in Cheshire, won the piano sect...
Whoopi Goldberg
07 Jan 2023
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Whoopi Goldberg is the one of very few people to have won all four of America’s big awards - Emmy,...
Sam Mendes
31 Dec 2022
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Theatre and film director Sam Mendes first made his mark when he launched London’s Donmar Warehous...
Tim Minchin
05 Nov 2022
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Comedian, actor and composer Tim Minchin wrote the songs for the musical adaptation of the Roald Dah...
Florence Pugh
29 Oct 2022
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Florence Pugh was Oscar and BAFTA nominated for her role as Amy March in the adaptation of Little Wo...
Shirin Neshat
22 Oct 2022
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Shirin Neshat is the world’s foremost Iranian-born artist. Best known for her black and white port...
Ken Loach
15 Oct 2022
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Over six decades, Ken Loach has forged a reputation as Britain’s foremost politically-engaged film...
Es Devlin
08 Oct 2022
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Es Devlin is the world’s foremost set designer, having conceived stage sets for superstar musician...