Matthew Ball’s cerebral ballet
The Royal Ballet principal on embracing pain, bringing the unconscious to the stage, and the dance world after #MeToo.
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The Kate Mossman Interview
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The Kate Mossman Interview
“I didn’t want anyone to know it was me”: on being Joni Mitchell’s “Carey”
For 50 years, the “mean old daddy” immortalised in one of Mitchell’s best-loved songs has been an enigma. Now he…
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Justin Welby: “It’s better to be woke than asleep”
The Tories decry his interventions; others say he’s too conservative. Can the Archbishop of Canterbury unite a fraying Church?
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Michael Parkinson – The last interview
The veteran talk-show host on broadcasting’s halcyon days, car-crash interviews and today’s “charlatans in high office”.
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Antonia Fraser: “I don’t like being unpopular”
The historian on growing up as “a boy”, her “last” biography, and the joy of having close male friends in…
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Joan Bakewell: “I can live with death – how odd”
As the broadcaster approaches 90, she reflects on her mother, the media and “her version” of her affair with Harold…
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Nick Cave: “I don’t think art should be in the hands of the virtuous”
The musician on why Morrissey matters, his deepening faith and grieving for his sons.
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William Orbit: “If you confound Madonna, a red mist comes down”
The producer worked his magic with Britney Spears, All Saints and Blur. In his sixties a drug binge and breakdown…
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