Interviews & profiles
I have interviewed and profiled pioneering scientists, provocative thinkers and writers with bold ideas and interesting ways of making sense of the world. Here is a selection from my archive.
- Author Tony Tulathimutte: ‘The great millennial theme? Resentment (The Guardian) January 2025
- We’ve become distrustful of each other’: Braiding Sweetgrass author Robin Wall Kimmerer on Trump, rural America and resistance (The Guardian) November 2024
- Beyond The Tipping Point: Malcolm Gladwell on Covid, Trump and what he got wrong (The Guardian) September 2024
- Charles Duhigg: “We’ve forgotten the rules of communication” (New Statesman) April 2024
- Daniel Freeman: “Psychosis is seen as scary. It’s the last taboo” (New Statesman) January 2024
- Naomi Klein’s mirror world (New Statesman) September 2023
- Mumsnet’s founder Justine Roberts: “It is a place where women can speak the truth” (New Statesman) May 2022
- Is reality a hallucination? The neuroscientist Anil Seth thinks so (New Statesman) February 2022
- David Chalmers: “I’d love to come back every 100 years to take a look” (New Statesman) January 2022
I also interview authors and experts on stage and for broadcast
- Humans: A Monstrous History – in conversation with Surekha Davies for the Intelligence Squared podcast (February 2025)
- In conversation with Camilla Nord at theCambridge Literary Festival (April 2024)
- In conversation with Clayton Aldern at the Cambridge Literary Festival (April 2024)
- The F-word: Reevaluating society’s approach to body image – in conversation with Kate Manne for the Intelligence Squared podcast (April 2024)
- Stuck in the middle – in conversation with Corey Keyes for the Intelligence Squared podcast (February 2024)
- Fear: An Alternative History – in conversation with Robert Peckham for the Intelligence Squared podcast (October 2023)