The Interview

Question 1

Author of the Interview Part 1

Answer 1

Christopher Silvester

Question 2

Summary of the interview

Answer 2

The Interview by Christopher Silvester talks about the importance of interviews and the role they play in communicating the affairs of the contemporary world to us. Christopher worked as a reporter for the Private Eye for 10 years. The Interview is an excerpt from his Penguin Book of Interviews, An Anthology from 1859 to the Present Day. The first part of the chapter talks about how interviews are perceived by various people. He cites famous personalities to exhibit different notions of interviews. He also advocates the importance of interviews in the field of journalism, and how they constitute important mediums of communication between the public and contemporary events and people of significance. The second part is an interview between famous writer and academician Umberto Eco and reporter from The Hindu, Mukund Padmanabhan