Interviews

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Hayley Turner: 'The last four months have just been horrible, not riding'

21 Jul 2009: Britain's best ever woman jockey, Hayley Turner, tells Paul Hayward that she is relishing being back in the saddle after an horrendous accident saw her stood down for a year
Portrait of the artist: Michael Rosen, writer

21 Jul 2009:
'Kids don't get the chance to enjoy poetry. They're too busy counting adjectives'
The Insiders

21 Jul 2009: Kevin Barnett, cycle instructor for Bexley
How to smile after a battering

21 Jul 2009: It was a difficult birth, says the new head of the Early Years Foundation Stage, but now it's blooming
Damian McBride in his own words

20 Jul 2009:
Comments at length from Gordon Brown's controversial former adviser on 'Smeargate', those emails, his critics and more. By James Robinson
A little less conversation

20 Jul 2009:
Interview: BBC drama is under fire on all fronts - not enough ambition, too much power in too few hands, a fixation with stars. Vicky Frost gets its controller's response
'Bloody hell. What was I thinking?'

20 Jul 2009:
Interview: The shame, the pain, the regrets - and the scores to settle. Damian McBride, the former Downing Street spin doctor, speaks exclusively to James Robinson in his first interview since Smeargate
Wayne Rooney determined to fill Ronaldo's boots as well as his own

19 Jul 2009: Wayne Rooney has spoken of his determination to play centre-forward for Manchester United in the new season
Starbucks founder spreads gospel of hope in Rwanda

19 Jul 2009:
Tim Adams discovers whether Howard Shultz' plans are good deeds, or just froth
Michael Owen glad to be back at the races with Manchester United

19 Jul 2009: Michael Owen talks to Tim Rich about ending his Newcastle nightmare, playing at Old Trafford and his hopes of winning silverware with Manchester United
Tyson Gay plots to bring Usain Bolt back to earth

19 Jul 2009: Tyson Gay has recovered from his disappointment at the Beijing Olympics and is training his mind to match Usain Bolt on the track
Sebastian Coe: Golden boy with success in his sights

19 Jul 2009:
Interview: Quietly and efficiently, the former Olympic champion is bringing in the 2012 London Games on time and in budget. How terribly unBritish ...
Waste diaries: what do you throw away in a week?

19 Jul 2009:
Rosie Boycott, Simon Bird and Toby Young on what they throw away in a week
A life of rhyme

19 Jul 2009:
He's Ireland's greatest living writer and its first Nobel prize-winning poet since Yeats. As "Famous" Seamus Heaney turns 70, he talks to Robert McCrum about celebrity, surviving a stroke and drinking poteen with Ted Hughes
This much I know

19 Jul 2009:
Lembit Opik MP, 44, London