Lynn Barber on interviewing skills and asking Jimmy Savile that question
LYNN Barber has, as the title of her memoir says, A Curious Career. She has been interviewing celebrities for London’s main broadsheet newspapers since the 1980s, and is currently with The Sunday Times.
Her first joust with a celebrity came in 1969, when Penthouse sent her, as a 25-year-old, to Paris to interview Salvador Dalí. She worked for the magazine for seven years, before taking a break to raise her two young daughters.
