The document discusses the concept of interviews, describing them as structured conversations where information is exchanged between an interviewer and an interviewee. It highlights various opinions on interviews from notable figures, including criticisms regarding their impact on the interviewees' self-perception. The text serves as an exploration of the significance and varying attitudes towards the practice of interviewing in journalism and society.

1. THE INTERVIEW
- CHRISTOPHER SILVESTER

2. CHRISTOPHER SILVESTER
Christopher Silvester was born in 1959 and
educated at Lancing College, Sussex, and
Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he read
history. From 1983 to 1994 he worked
for Private Eye, initially writing the 'New Boys'
column, a series of caustic profiles of newly
elected MPs, and later specialising in
political, legal and media affairs. He has
written for several newspapers and
magazines, including the Evening Standard,
the Guardian, the Observer, the Independent
on Sunday, Esquire, GQ and Vanity Fair. He
is also the editor of the Penguin Book of
Interviews: An Anthology from 1859 to the
Present Day and the author of The Pimlico

4. WHATIS AN INTERVIEW?
BY SADHIYA ZAINAB.Z
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5. • An interview is a structured conversation where one participant
asks questions, and the other provides answers. In common
parlance, the word "interview" refers to a one-on-one
conversation between
an interviewer and an interviewee. The interviewer asks
questions to
which the interviewee responds, usually providing information.
That information may be used or provided to other audiences
immediately or later. This feature is common to many types of
interviews – a job interview or interview with a witness to an
event may have no other audience present at the time, but the
answers will be later provided to others in the employment or
investigative process. An interview may also transfer information

6. • Interviews usually take place face-to-face and in person but the
parties may instead be separated geographically, as in
Video conference or telephone interviews. Interviews
almost always involve spoken conversation between two or
more parties. In some instances a "conversation" can happen
between two persons who type their questions and answers.

8. CELEBRITY INTERVIEW
Celebrities are required to do interviews so
the public can see how they live their lives.
They also represent what people can look
like if they work hard to achieve their
dreams. Consultations give the public an
idea of how celebrities spend their days,
what they think about other stars and
other relevant topics
BY SHAMINI

9. V.S.NAIPAUL
Vidiadhar surajprasad Naipaul - Also known as
V.S.Naipaul is a Trinidadian born british writer.
He is cosmopolitan writer in his travel books &
documentary works - he gave out impression of
the country india.
He received a nobel prize for literature in 2001
BY JEEVIKA

10. NAIPAUL
’S THOUGHTABOUTAN INTERVIEW
• Feels that people are wounded by interviews and
lose a part of themselves
• By this statement he represents a negative
review for interview

11. LEWIS CARROLL
ABOUT
HIS EXPERIENCE ON
INTERVIEWS
BY: KAMALINI.R
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12. LEWIS CARROLL
Lewis Carroll born
on 27th January ,
Daresbury , Cheshire
, England and died
on January 14th 1898
in Guild ford , Surrey.

13. HIS VIEWS ON INTERVIEWS
• Lewis Carroll was a
Mathematician ,
photographer and a
Novelist
• He was especially
remembered for his
famous work on ‘Alice in
Wonderland’ and its sequel
‘ through the looking glass

14. HIS HATRED TOWARDS INTERVIEWS
Lewis Carroll popularly known for being the author of ‘Alice
in Wonderland ’ , says that he has just a horror of the
interviews and has never been consented to be interviewed
before.
He states that he has a lionized horror of the interviews
,interviewers and the petitioners who ask for his autograph

15. • Lewis Carroll has had his success of not
giving interviews as he further tells
stories of hoe he succeeded in silencing
the people who ask for his interviews
and autographs with amusement and
satisfaction

16. RUDYARD KIPLING
• A prolific writer who was
known as the poet of the
common soldier. Kipling’s
Jungle Book which is a story
of Kimball O’ Hara and his
adventures in the Himalayas is
considered as a children’s
classic all over the world.
BY SANJANA

17. RUDYARDKIPLING
• Rudyard Kiplingexpressedanevenmore condemnatoryattitude towardsthe
interviewer.His wife,Caroline,writes inher diary for 14 October 1892 thattheir day
was‘wrecked by two reportersfromBoston’.She reports her husbandassayingto
thereporters,“Why do I refuse to beinterviewed?Because itis immoral!It is acrime,
just as muchofacrimeas anoffenceagainstmyperson,as anassault,and justas
muchmeritspunishment.Itis cowardlyandvile.Norespectable manwouldaskit,
much lessgive it,”YetKipling hadhimselfperpetratedsuch an‘assault’on MarkTwain.
BY PRISHA JESSICA

18. H.G. WELLS
BY JANAVIKA

19. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 –
13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific
in many genres, he wrote more than fifty
novels and dozens of short stories. His non-
fiction output included works of social
commentary, politics, history, popular science,
satire, biography and autobiography. Wells is
now best remembered for his science fiction
novels and has been called the "father of
science fiction’’.

20. • His most notable science fiction works include
The Time Machine (1895), which was his first
novel, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The
Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds
(1898) and the military science fiction The War in
the Air (1907).
• H. G. Wells in an interview in 1894 referred to
‘the interviewing ordeal’, but was a fairly frequent
interviewee and forty years later found himself
interviewing Joseph Stalin.

21. SAUL BELLOW AND HIS OPINION ON
INTERVIEWS
BY SAVITHA

22. ABOUT SAUL BELLOW
SOLOMON BELLOW OR SAUL BELLOW WAS A CANADIAN-BORN AMERICAN
PLAYWRIGHT AND NOVELIST. SAUL BELLOW WAS AWARDED THE PULITZER
PRIZE, THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE, AND THE NATIONAL MEDAL OF
ARTS. AMONG HIS MOST FAMOUS CHARACTERS ARE AUGIE MARCH
FROM HIS BOOK ‘THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH’ AND MOSES FROM
HIS BESTSELLING BOOK ‘HERZOG’. BELLOW TAUGHT IN SOME OF THE
MOST PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITIES INCLUDING YALE AND PRINCETON. HE
DIED AT THE AGE OF 89 ON 5TH APRIL 2005.

23. SAUL BELLOW AND INTERVIEWS
SAUL BELLOW HAS CONSENTED TO BE INTERVIEWED ON
SEVERAL OCCASIONS, NEVERTHELESS ONCE DESCRIBED
INTERVIEWS AS BEING LIKE THUMBPRINTS ON HIS WINDPIPE
WHICH MEANS THAT HE FELT CHOKED AND SUFFOCATED
WHEN HE SAT FOR ONE.
NEVERTHELESS: IN SPITE OF THAT.
CHOKED: MAKE (SOMEONE) SPEECHLESS WITH A STRONG
FEELING OR EMOTION.
SUFFOCATING: FEEL OR CAUSE TO FEEL TRAPPED AND
OPPRESSED.

24. DENIS
BRIAN
BY SHAMUKTHA PARTHASARATHY

25. Denis Brian believed that the interviewer holds a position of unprecedented
power and influence as almost everything of moment reaches us through one
man asking questions of another. The interviewer plays a major role in shaping a
person’s image in the society as an individual, a citizen and a professional.

26. ABOUT DENIS BRIAN
Denis Brian was born on 11th December,1923 in Cardiff, Wales. He is a journalist and
book writer well known for his 1996 biography Einstein : A Life. Brian graduated
from Ravensbourne School, Bromley in 1939 and then worked as a reporter for the Irish
News Service in Fleet Street for two years. Upon reaching the age of eighteen, he joined
the Royal Air Force; after two years' training (mostly in Canada) he became
a Lancaster bomber pilot with the rank of flight lieutenant. He flew 36 missions and was
awarded the DFC. After WWII he studied playwriting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic
Art and several of his plays were produced in English theatres. In 1957 Brian emigrated to
the United States, where he worked as a freelance writer and editor for several
publications, including the Writer's Literary Agency. In the early 1960s he began writing
books.

27. MYTHS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY
• When we snap a
profile picture
today, part of the
goal is to look cool
• But in olden days,
photographs were
a passage to
immortality
BY RISHALINI.U

28. MYTHS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY
• That's especially evident in the tradition of postmortem
photography. In that genre, a recently deceased person, child,
or pet would be photographed as if they were still alive.
• But it reveals the mentality of the time: portraiture was used
as a way to preserve the living for future generations.

29. Summary
BY
NAKSHATHRA.G.A
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30. The Interview is an excerpt taken from ‘The Penguin Book of Interviews’. It is
written by Christopher Silvester. In this chapter, the author talks about the
technique of ‘interview’ as a new way of interrogating. He talks about it with
reference to the field of Journalism. Moreover, he also discusses the
importance of this new technique. He goes on to state how the interview has
become a vital arena in everyone’s lives, regardless of the class, literacy or
anything. We learn about the opinions of many celebrities concerning an
interview. Thus, it teaches us about the functions, methods and merits of an
interview.

31. TO SUM UP, THE INTERVIEW, WE LEARN HOW
MANY PEOPLE DIFFER WHEN IT COMES TO
INTERVIEWS, NONETHELESS, THEY ARE VERY
INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE.

32. THE INTERVIEW – INTEXT QUESTIONS
PRESENTED BY
VIJAAYA SHRI.VM

33. 1.WHAT ARE SOME POSITIVE VIEWS
ON INTERVIEWS?
● USEFUL MEANS OF COMMUNICATION
● COMMONPLACE OF JOURNALISM
● GIVES VIVID IMPRESSIONS OF
INTERVIEWEES

34. 2.WHY DO MOST OF CELEBRITY WRITERS
DESPITE BEING INTERVIEWED?
INTERVIEWEES ARE
VICTIM OF
INTERVIEWS
SAUL BELLOW
WOUNDED BY
INTERVIEWS AND
LOSE A PART OF
THEMSELVES
VS NAIPAUL
IMMORAL, OFFENCE
AND VILE
RUDYARD KIPLING
THUMBPRINTS ON HIS
WINDPIPE

35. 3.WHAT IS THE BELIEF IN SOME
PRIMITIVE CULTURE ABOUT BEING
PHOTOGRAPHED?
● STEALING HIS/HER SOUL
● LEAVING THEIR EXISTENCE INCOMPLETE
Tip
In this example, we’re
leading off with
something unexpected.
While the audience is
trying to come up with a
number, we’ll surprise
them with the next slide.

36. 4.WHAT DO YOU UNDERSTAND BY
THE EXPRESSION “THUMBPRINTS
ON HIS WINDPIPE” ?
● INTERVIEWERS MAKE INTERVIEWEES FEEL
SUFFOCATED
● INTERVIEWERS ARE STRANGULATORS AND
INTERVIEWEES AS VICTIM
Tip
Remember. If something
sounds like common
sense, people will ignore
it.
Highlight what is
unexpected about
your topic.

37. 5.WHO, IN TODAY’S WORLD,IS OUR
CHIEF SOURCE OF INFORMATION
ABOUT PERSONALITIES?
● INTERVIEW CONVEYS INFORMATION IN FAST,
SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE MANNER
● EXCELLENT MEDIUM OF COMMUNICATION
BECOME OUR CHIEF SOURCE OF INFORMATION
Tip
Ideally, speak of people
in very different
situations, but where
each could benefit from
your solution.