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Lunch with the FT is a weekly column in the FT magazine in which journalists interview famous figures from the world of art, literature, politics and finance.
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Lunch with the FT: Sebastian Faulks
Through all of the author’s novels, his characters are thinkers, not killers; it’s the inner life that fascinates him. Is he really the right man to pen a thriller about the hard-living secret agent 007?
Lunch with the FT: Grayson Perry
Underneath the pink tulip-skirt dress of this transvestite is a Turner Prize winner and an intellectual artist who has made some of the most exquisitely crafted pots of our time
Lunch with the FT: Mikheil Saakashvili
President Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia’s president, tells Gideon Rachman he wants a cultural transformation in his country
Lunch with the FT: John Madejski
The Berkshire businessman and philanthropist has placed his money on his passions: football, education and Reading, writes David Oakley
Lunch with the FT: Sir Ronald Cohen
The veteran venture capitalist tells Michael Skapinker how business can bring about a lasting peace in the Middle East
Lunch with the FT: Isabel Allende
When it comes to politics, the Chilean writer tells it how she sees it; for the rest she uses stories
Lunch with the FT: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The former Wall Street trader’s rather random style of thought can be irritating in print but is entertaining in conversation
Lunch with the FT: Mario Cuomo
The former New York governor tells Chrystia Freeland that the US needs a less theatrical and more honest type of political debate
Lunch with the FT: Irene Khan
The first woman, first Asian and first Muslim to head Amnesty International tells Michael Skapinker why the group departed from the clarity of its original mission
Lunch with the FT: Louis de Bernières
The author of ‘Captain Corelli’s Mandolin’ is harder to fathom than expected after the warm extravagance of much of his prose
