S1 Ep8: Andrew Billen, feature writer and interviewer
Jan 10, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 8
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Episode description
For a while I’ve been looking for a chance to pick Andrew Billen’s brain about how he writes his insightful, revealing profiles of celebrities and politicians for The Times, and in this episode I visit him at his family home in Oxford to do just that. Andrew looks back on 30 years of interviews, talks me through his ‘essay plan’, and reveals some of the most and least successful encounters he’s had in his career.
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