Britain’s greatest and most ferocious interviewer, Lynn Barber, takes to the Bloomsbury stage to discuss A Curious Career, her new memoir of her life as an interviewer with Geoff Colman.
A nosy child, Lynn Barber questioned everyone she knew about imitate details of their lives. She became the most famous celebrity interviewer with an unusual lack of the English fear of social embarrassment. She discusses the highs and lows of her early career at Penthouse where she started out interviewing foot fetishists, voyeurs, dominatrices and men who liked wearing nappies, and her eminent later career at the Telegraph, Sunday Express, Vanity Fair, Observer and Sunday Times.