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Lunch with the FT is a weekly interview in the Life & Arts section with leading cultural and business figures

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Lunch with the FT: Dustin Hoffman

The movie legend talks to Matthew Garrahan about his career, dealing with anti-Semitism and why he’s now starring in his first TV drama

Lunch with the FT: Kenneth Rogoff

The Harvard professor, whose advice world leaders seek, talks to Gideon Rachman about his old addiction – chess

Lunch with the FT: Anwar Ibrahim

Days after his acquittal, Malaysia’s opposition leader tells James Crabtree there should be no contradiction between Islam and democracy

Lunch with the FT: Howard Hodgkin

Over frankfurters and schnitzel, the artist Howard Hodgkin tells Jackie Wullschlager about his life, loves and why he’s putting his art collection on show

Lunch with the FT: Zbigniew Brzezinski

The former US security adviser tells Edward Luce his worries about Barack Obama and China – and reveals a ‘visceral contempt’ for Tony Blair

Lunch with the FT: Pierre Dukan

Diet guru Pierre Dukan talks to Lucy Kellaway about how unhappiness makes us fat, his passion for Spinoza

Lunch with the FT: Peter Brant

The industrialist tells Vanessa Friedman that he sees himself as a mogul who collects art to show people ‘there’s something better in the world’

Laurence Freeman

The head of an international ‘monastery without walls’ talks to John Paul Rathbone on the benefits of meditation

James Daunt

The banker turned bookseller tells Lorien Kite what made him take the helm at a troubled chain of bookshops

Barry Humphries

The ‘manager’ of Dame Edna Everage talks about pantomime and shares a bizarrely orange cake with Ludovic Hunter-Tilney

Lunch with the FT: Lady Amanda Harlech

Lunch with the FT: Stewart Lee

Lunch with the FT: Henry Kravis and George Roberts

Lunch with the FT: Helly Nahmad

Lunch with the FT: Tim Minchin

Lunch with the FT: Donald Keene

Lunch with the FT: Mickey Drexler

Lunch with the FT: Mitsuko Uchida

Lunch with the FT: Waheed Alli

Lunch with the FT: William Acquavella