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Lionel Shriver: 'I had to get to grips with death'

16 April 2010 12:00 AM

The latest novel from the author of We Need To Talk About Kevin was inspired by the terminal illness of a friend who refused to accept that she was dying

Rufus Wainwright: 'Our family is a battered ship...'

09 April 2010 12:00 AM

Back with an album, a tour and an opera, the Canadian singer reveals how a series of births and deaths forced him to grow up

Tamsin Greig: 'I think I'm a little bit odd'

01 January 2010 12:00 AM

When it comes to acting work, Tamsin Greig admits that the phone has never stopped ringing. So why does she still feel inadequate?

John Lydon: 'I'm not a leader, bully or dictator'

11 December 2009 12:00 AM

Agitator, innovator, naturist: more than thirty years after crashing into the public sphere, John Lydon is still as hard to define as ever

Malcolm McLaren: 'I'm most probably a missing link'

27 November 2009 12:00 AM

The Sex Pistols supremo who helped to revolutionise popular culture in the Seventies wants to be recognised as a serious artist

Poliakoff: 'Original work takes arrogance'

20 November 2009 12:00 AM

The director's latest film is set at the beginning of the Second World War, a period inextricably linked with his own family history

Rupert Penry-Jones: 'It's nice not to be chasing a bad guy'

13 November 2009 12:00 AM

Rupert Penry-Jones is grateful to be TV's most famous spy, and with a play set to open, he isn't worried about being typecast

Akram Khan: 'You have to become a warrior'

06 November 2009 12:00 AM

He's the darling of the dance world, and beyond, with artists such as Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley lining up to work with him

Clare Higgins: 'I was a bit of an odd child'

30 October 2009 12:00 AM

An epiphany at the Royal Shakespeare Company led the award-winning actress first to misbehaviour, and then stardom

Jonathan Miller: 'Some things I've done are as deep as you get'

23 October 2009 12:00 AM

The term 'Renaissance man' could have been invented for him. So why, after a long and illustrious career, is Jonathan Miller so gloomy?

Dylan Moran: 'I am a bit of a bumbling man, as you can tell..."

16 October 2009 12:00 AM

Despite his trademark moroseness, it seems that Dylan Moran may not be quite the crank he's cracked himself up to be

Robert Harris: A writer close to the power elite

09 October 2009 12:00 AM

Robert Harris may have friends in high places – but that doesn't mean that the sharpness of his writing is blunted by compromise

Roberto Alagna: 'Opera was my secret love'

02 October 2009 12:00 AM

His life story is as colourful and tear-jerking as any of the roles he's sung. So will the heart-throb tenor ever find serenity?

John Simm: 'I don't mean to seem cocky'

18 September 2009 12:00 AM

He's known as the star of television dramas 'Life on Mars' and 'Dr Who'. Now the actor is returning to the West End stage

David McVicar: 'I'm good because I care so much'

11 September 2009 12:00 AM

He's opera's bad boy with a reputation for bloody stagings and tantrums, but the world-renowned director is a big softie at heart
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