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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

Lunch with the FT: David Miliband

Lunch with the FT: Jim Cramer

Lunch with the FT: Mo Ibrahim

Lunch with the FT: Theodore Zeldin

Lunch with the FT: Ken Costa

Lunch with the FT: Henri de Castries

Lunch with the FT: Viswanathan Anand

Lunch with the FT: Christopher Hitchens

Lunch with the FT: Maggi Hambling

Lunch with the FT: Andre Agassi