The powers, the authoritarian powers encroaching on people who just want to live free is very, very moving to me.'Īnd he’s chosen a very specific recording of the show’s title song for his desert island: I guess being Jewish has got something to do with it. I saw the most recent production in New York five times. He loves one stage musical above all others And then if you listen you become a twig in the stream of the conversation and then you can go to other places.” 3. the net! Because I think if you don't have a list of questions then you really have to listen. “I want to be like a trapeze artist without, the er, the thing, er, the thing that they fall into.
“I don't have a list of questions,” Jon explains. He takes a bold approach to interviews – with nothing to fall back on “I went into the BBC and Janet Street Porter was sitting there - the head of youth television at the time - and she went: ‘Yeah, I think it's a fantastic idea,’ and I sat there saying nothing because I actually had no idea what the idea was.” 2.
