In Confidence: Talking Frankly about Fame

In Confidence: Talking Frankly about Fame

by Laurie Taylor (Author)

Synopsis

A study of celebrity based on the seventy odd interviews featured in the Sky Arts television series, In Confidence. Informants include David Schwimmer, Stephen Fry, Harry Belafonte, Alan Ayckbourn, Kathie Burke, Michael Frayn, Christopher Hitchens, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Sheila Hancock, Richard Dawkins, Miriam Margolys, Tracey Emin, and Nigel Kennedy. Here you will find everyone from politicians to artists, film-makers to novelists, talking frankly about fame and reputation.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 194
Publisher: Zero Books
Published: 29 Aug 2014

ISBN 10: 178279767X
ISBN 13: 9781782797678

Author Bio
Professor of sociology Laurie Taylor has been one of the most distinctive voices on BBC Radio 4 for over 40 years. Thinking Allowed has an audience of 1.2 million. He writes the weekly satirical column on university life for Times Higher Education. His In Confidence series on Sky Arts TV, over 60 one-hour interviews with well-known people, forms the basis of this study of celebrity. Former editor of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour and Dean of Media, Arts and Design at the University of Westminster, Sally Feldman writes a regular column in Times Higher Education.