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Who could forget Ken Livingstone's salamanders, Tony Benn's front room, Lord Denning on passing a death sentence, Angela Carter's affection for the Marquis de Sade? John Mortimer's interviews in the Sunday Times command an enthusiastic following. Using his powers of cross-examination and his playwright's eye and ear for significant detail, he talks to such diverse personalities as Graham Greene, Mick Jagger, Enoch Powell, David Hockney, E.P. Thompson and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
He lends an attentive ear and gives subtle expression to what he values most Financial Times
If the marks of a good interviewer are keen self-effacement, an abiding interest in what makes people tick and the knack of persuading them to tell us, Mr Mortimer is the perfect steersman Observer
What really distinguishes Mortimer from his rivals is his sensibility ... a humane morality of his own and a rare gift for avoiding the obvious ... I have nothing but praise for this book Francis Wheen in the New Statesman
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