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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: Evgeny Lebedev

The charming billionaire oligarch talks to Peter Aspden about growing up as the son of a KGB agent, buying the Evening Standard and promoting Russian culture in Britain

Lunch with the FT: Andrew Strauss

England’s cricket captain talks to FT Editor Lionel Barber about managing maverick talents, how money is changing the game and his reverence for the Aussie fighting spirit

Lunch with the FT: Sigrid Rausing

The Tetra Pak heiress and owner of Granta talks about her decision to cut commercialism from the British literary magazine and why saving it is, in itself, a philanthropic act

Lunch with the FT: Eliot Spitzer

The New York governor who was forced to resign last year following a sex scandal talks about real friends, making amends to his family and his disdain for financial regulators

Dinner with the FT: Prince Andrew

The Duke of York, who has flown from Algeria to Ulaanbaatar and made 628 official engagements last year alone, talks about his role as Britain’s travelling salesman

Lunch with the FT: Denise Rich

The songwriter and socialite who has a thing about numbers talks to Vanessa Friedman about her cancer research charity, which was established in memory of her daughter

Lunch with the FT: David Swensen

The manager of Yale’s endowment fund who has become an investing legend among the cognoscenti tells Chrystia Freeland why he loves his job as much as he does

Lunch with the FT: Dalia Grybauskaite

An economist with a black belt in karate, the president of Lithuania tells Gideon Rachman how she plans to get the country out of the economic doldrums

Lunch with the FT: David Hare

The playwright talks to Gillian Tett about his latest work ‘The Power of Yes’ and explains why he cannot understand, let alone empathise with, bankers’ motives

Mario Testino: beyond jetlag

Lunch with the FT: His photographs show a ‘normal’ Princess of Wales and at least 10 different versions of Kate Moss. Over a picnic in his London studio he explains why ‘women are more accepting about possibilities’

Lunch with the FT: Nick Hornby

Lunch with the FT: Paula Rego

Lunch with the FT: Robert Skidelsky

Lunch with the FT: Jeff Koons

Lunch with the FT: Daniel Barenboim

Lunch with the FT: Jared Diamond

Lunch with the FT: Rory Stewart

Lunch with the FT: Lars von Trier

Lunch with the FT: Lord Tebbit

Lunch with the FT: Larry Summers