Interviews

Jamaican scientist opens doors for African-Caribbean children

Thursday, 30 September 2010 10:23
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The Guardian, Tuesday 28 September 2010

Jackie Kemp meets the professor of brewing who is working with Benjamin Zephaniah to excite black students

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6MogWTJKKc - paste into google

Professor Geoff Palmer: 'I felt my OBE was not only for me, but for all the people who helped me'


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William Dalrymple shares his impressions of modern India

Monday, 14 June 2010 09:23
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From the Herald Saturday magazine, June 14.

A travel writer who, after 25 years of immersion in Asia has graduated to a historian, William Dalrymple is fired up about his next project. “It’s about the First Afghan War: 2,100 East India Company troops march into Afghanistan in 1839, one single Brit rides out three years later,” he says, with obvious relish. Dalrymple has recently returned to India from a month in Afghanistan where he is excited to have found five previously untranslated Dari chronicles about the war. This, he feels, will enable him to “give the Afghan perspective” on that forgotten imperial adventure.

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Louise Richardson Interview

Tuesday, 17 March 2009 09:27
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Education Guardian.

Louise Richardson, the new head of St Andrews, will bring 'American attitudes' to admissions and to red tape, she tells Jackie Kemp.

University of St Andrews

St Andrews University ... Louise Richardson was previously the dean of a Harvard college

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'Singing has helped me to cope and to come through'

Monday, 21 February 2005 11:55
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WHEN Rachel Brand discovered she had a brain tumour, her life was turned upside down. The management consultant, who is in her 30s, underwent surgery. Yet two years later, she had to cope with the news that the tumour was growing back and that she faced more surgery followed by radiotherapy.

Not surprisingly, she has struggled with feelings of depression and isolation. But Rachel's saving grace has been a surprising one - singing. During a period off work after her first diagnosis she decided to pursue her love of jazz and singing, an interest she had put to one side for many years. Soon she found herself heading north from her London home to Edinburgh where she took a five-day course with jazz vocalists and teachers Fionna Duncan and Sophie Bancroft. It changed her life.

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