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A brilliant interviewer?
Her natural warmth and passion for her subject also made her a brilliant interviewer, and encouraged even the most truculent artists to open up.
Then there's the Andrew Neil that got him there: the clever, hard-working, aggressive politico, a brilliant interviewer on top of his brief and never afraid to embarrass with a difficult question.
But Mr. King is a brilliant interviewer who has devised a surefire technique: he figures out what questions his audience would most like to ask, and then asks them.
We might hear the power of a brilliant interviewer in Anthony Clare's encounter with Claire Rayner; we know instantly, through voice and storytelling, the world people lived and worked in (try Dame Ethel Smyth from 1935, as she remembers meeting Brahms in, as she puts it formally, "eighteen hundred and seventy seven") and we're reminded of radio's incredible history and significance.
Author Gitta Sereny, a brilliant interviewer who brought three-dimensional insight into even the most sinister subjects, died at age 91 earlier this month in Cambridge, England, and it's worth pausing to honor her lifelong inquiry into the Holocaust -- and the question of how such monstrous acts were even possible.
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Brilliant interviewers, all of them, no question, for all their weird flaws, but it would be unfair to single out people when so many journalists are still stuck in that horrible, contemptuous, inquisitorial thing.
When Frost/Nixon came out in 2008, my kids, who'd known him for years as a family friend, suddenly looked at him differently; a new generation had discovered what a brilliant, brave interviewer he was.
Cunk on Christmas (10pm, BBC2) The brilliant dimwit interviewer meets experts to answer all the essential Christmas questions: how a chicken morphs into a turkey, how Jesus came up with the sarnie chain Pret a Manger – and how Santa rose through the ranks to become the world's most popular home intruder.
Off it, he can be a brilliant bamboozler, tying interviewers in knots with a series of diversions and wild extrapolations.
Whatever else you want to say about the magazine, Playboy did give great interview, a product of stylish interviewers and brilliant editing.
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