I’ve done hundreds of interviews with the famous and the not-so-famous. I do my best to try to ask the questions that anybody would ask if they had access to these subjects. So I do lots of research and present in-depth portraits, conscious that any interview can only skim the surface and be a snapshot of a person’s thoughts and feelings on that day, on that date.
If you want to check out a (partial) list of the hundreds of interviews I’ve done over the years, please take a look.
Sylvan Adams for Jewish News January 2024 The Canadian-Israeli businessman Sylvan Adams, renowned for bringing both Madonna and international cycling to Israel, has made what he calls a “wow factor” donation of $100 million to Ben-Gurion University, with the aim of transforming the southern Negev. Adams, a youthful 65, is a wonderfully maverick decoration to […]
Dennis Ross For Jewish News Nov 13 2023 America’s most experienced Middle East diplomat, Ambassador Dennis Ross, says Israel has “an excruciating dilemma” in its war with Hamas. But he told Jewish News that although he is firmly against a ceasefire, because he believes Hamas will only use the opportunity to regroup and re-arm, nevertheless […]
For Jewish News Sep 2023 It is safe to say that the music mogul Harvey Lisberg is no Walter Yetnikoff, the infamous record industry executive whose career — even by his own lights — was a litany of drugs, drugs and even more drugs. But Lisberg, speaking from his home in Los Angeles where he […]
For Jewish News Life magazine September 2023 It’s sometimes said that if you want something done, ask a busy person. Such a one is ITN’s singular political editor, Robert Peston, who is opening the High Holiday season with a flourish. Not only does he have a non-fiction book coming out later this year, but the […]
For Jewish News Life magazine May 2023 Rabbi Yehuda Sarna is waiting for the winter months with some anticipation. Because then, and only then, will the mikvah in the Moses Ben Maimon Synagogue in Abu Dhabi be able to operate. As the Chief Rabbi of the newly opened synagogue — part of the Abrahamic Family […]
Graham Gouldman for Jewish News colour mag July 2022 Hanging in the hall of Graham Gouldman’s north-west London home is a painting of his late mother, Betty, done by his artist aunt. It’s not the sort of picture you might expect: she looks completely different from the capable Manchester housewife which she was. She’s glamorous […]
For the JC August 11 2022 2022 Dan Patterson, the producer and deviser of Mock the Week with his long-time collaborator, Mark Leveson, was sitting at presenter Dara Ó Briain’s wedding, when the best man stood up to give his speech. The best man was comedian Ed Byrne, later to become one of the mainstays […]
For the JC July 15 2022 It’s hard to think of an area of the arts world with which Sir Lloyd Dorfman is not intimately connected. The entrepreneur and philanthropist, properly Sir Lloyd Dorfman CVO CBE — the CVO was awarded in June’s Queen’s Birthday Honours for his work in chairing the Prince’s Trust International […]
For the JC May 2022 by Jenni Frazer Did the famed Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal really break into the home of Adolf Eichmann’s brother in Linz, to steal hundreds of pages of transcript of conversation between Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust’s Final Solution and a Dutch Nazi journalist, Willem Sassen? Yariv Mozer, Israel’s premier documentary […]
For the JC April 2022 If you were looking for one name to sum up the enormity of Holocaust suffering, you might say Eli Wiesel, or Mordechai Anielewicz, or Primo Levi. But the chances are that sooner rather than later, you would settle on Anne Frank, the Amsterdam-based teenager whose Diary of a Young Girl […]