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THE INTERVIEW

From The Introduction to


The Penguin Book of
Interviews edited by
Christopher Silvester
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Christopher Silvester is a freelance journalist,


author and consultant.

Christopher Silvester (1959) was a student of


history at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He was a
reporter for Private Eye for ten years and has
written features forVanity Fair.

The chapter is an excerpt taken from his


introduction to the Penguin Book of Interviews, An
Anthology from 1859 to the Present Day
“When you are interviewing someone you’re in
control.When you’re being interviewed, you think
you’re in control but you’re not”

- Barbara Walters
WHAT IS AN INTERVIEW?

An interview is a conversation between two


people (the interviewer and the interviewee)
where questions are asked by the interviewer
to obtain information from the interviewee.
TYPES OF INTERVIEW

CELEBRITY INTERVIEWS JOB INTERVIEWS


DO’S OF INTERVIEWING

 Do let the interviewee do most of the talking


 Do establish rapport early and maintain it
 Do maintain control over the subject matter
 Do establish a time frame for the interview and stick to it
 Do conclude positively
 Do be polite and courteous
DON’TS OF INTERVIEWING

 Do not assume anything


 Do not form pre- judgments
 Do verify understanding through probing and confirming
questions
 Do avoid confrontations
 Do act in a friendly but professional manner
 Do not interrupt
 Do listen actively
 Do take notes but do not be obtrusive about it
SOME FAMOUS INTERVIEWERS

Oprah Winfrey Barbara Walters Karan Thapar


PART 1 OF THE CHAPTER

Do you like to be interviewed?You cannot love interviews


when you are a celebrity, all the time surrounded by the
interviewers and camera flash, by unnecessary questions and
seeing your answers twisted, misinterpreted and gossiped in the
media… Do celebrities like to be interviewed? Some
celebrities have expressed their views about interviews. Most of
them condemn being interviewed.
VIEWS OF CELEBRITIES
Positive
• Supremely serviceable medium of communication
• An immensely popular journalistic style
• Celebrities claim interview in its highest form, a source of truth, and, in its practice,
an art
Negative
• A needless invasion
• Somehow diminishes the person
• V. S. Naipaul (a cosmopolitan writer) feels that some people are wounded by
interviews and lose a part of themselves
• Lewis Caroll (creator of Alice in Wonderland) hates being interviewed
• Rudyard Kipling (writer of Jungle Book) considers it immoral and crime
• H. G. Wells a celebrity who considered interview to be an ordeal.
• Soul Bellow felt he had been forced to speak during the interview. He felt
his windpipe being thumbed to speak
PART 2 OF THE CHAPTER

Part II is an extract from an interview of Umberto Eco, author


of the popular novel,’ Name of the Rose’ by Mukund
Padmanabhan from ‘The Hindu’ This interview helps us know
many aspects of his writing style and ideas.

As we go through this extract, we can easily note that Umberto


Eco does not think, interview is a crime or an offence. He
interacts properly and modestly.
UMBERTO ECO

Umberto Eco, (born January 5,


1932, Alessandria, Italy - died February 19,
2016, Milan), Italian literary critic, novelist,
and semiotician (student of signs and
symbols) best known for his novel,The Name
of the Rose).

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