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Home: interview with Youssef Kerkour (Sami)

Explain a little bit about your new series, Home. What I always tell people is “Just think of Paddington, but instead of a cuddly bear, it’s a big cuddly Syrian refugee.” It’s a story of a refugee who sneaks into the back of a car belonging to a lovely middle-class family on their way home from

25 Feb 19 Interview

Home: Interview with Rebekah Staton (Katy)

Explain a bit about your new series, Home. A couple drive home after a holiday in France to find a refugee in their boot. I’ve not met someone yet who after hearing that sentence isn’t intrigued to see the show. Especially when I tell them it is a comedy. And on Channel 4. You play Katy – what’s her

25 Feb 19 Interview

Home: Interview with writer Rufus Jones (Peter)

Can you explain the premise of the show? A very middle-class English, family go on holiday to France in their quite spacious Audi. They have a lovely holiday and come back, they open the boot to unpack and there’s a Syrian refugee. After the initial shock, Katy, and her son John, welcome the refugee

19 Feb 19 Interview

Sleeping with the Far Right: Interview with Alice Levine

Explain a little bit about what your new documentary is all about. In what must be the strangest school exchange ever, I went and lived for seven days with Jack Sen, who is a British Nationalist and former member of UKIP and the BNP. I lived with him and his family – his wife, his daughter and his

28 Jan 19 Interview

Shipwrecked - Cast press pack interviews

Name: Harry Age: 26 Location: London and the world Occupation: Model My Shipwrecked experience: Unbelievable My personality: Enigmatic, fun and ruthless Celebrity most like to be stranded with: Da Vinci What made you want to go on Shipwrecked? To be honest it is not something I would usually do. I

28 Jan 19 Interview

Shipwrecked - Vick Hope press pack interview

You’re the voice of the new series of Shipwrecked. What appealed to you about being part of the show? It’s exciting! I watched the show when I was younger, and I remember thinking of all the reality shows around at the time that Shipwrecked would be the one I’d most like to take part in. Because it

28 Jan 19 Interview

Pure: Interview with director Aneil Karia

What was it that attracted you to the idea of working on Pure? When I read the Pure script, it was immediately apparent the show wanted to do something bold and different - but crucially, not just for the sake of being different. Its difference was an intrinsic part of it, much like Marnie’s

15 Jan 19 Interview

Pure: Interview with author Rose Cartwright

Channel 4’s new series, Pure, is based on your book, which deals with your experiences of Pure O. Can you explain what that is? Pure O is just a nickname for a certain manifestation of OCD. Most people think that OCD is to do with cleanliness or order or germs – actually it’s a really wide-ranging

15 Jan 19 Interview

Pure: Interview with Joe Cole (Charlie)

Can you tell us a little about Pure? It’s based on Rose Cartwright’s memoir. She has a condition called ‘Pure O’, which is a form of OCD whereby you have intrusive thoughts that makes your life very difficult to live in a normal sense; in her case, intrusive sexual thoughts. She went through various