{"id":286,"date":"2017-07-06T14:04:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T14:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/?page_id=286"},"modified":"2017-07-14T18:18:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T17:18:04","slug":"testimonials","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/about-2\/testimonials\/","title":{"rendered":"Testimonials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>&#8220;George Miller is the kind of interviewer every writer dreams of meeting; subtle, generous and keenly alive to the work. I felt like I\u2019d learned something about my own writing \u2013 as well as the art of interviewing \u2013 from him.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><span style=\"color: #9F4210;\">Robert Macfarlane, author of <i>Mountains of the Mind<\/i>, winner of the Guardian first book prize and <i>The Old Ways<\/i>, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize 2012, chair of 2013 Man Booker judges<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Sometimes when you talk to a literary journalist you feel that your book has been confiscated. You feel it slipping further from you, as you somehow miss the opportunity to say what you mean, and find yourself saying things you certainly don\u2019t mean. George Miller\u2019s interviews are different. Instead of taking your book away and making it into something else, he gives it back to you in a subtly enhanced form. I look forward to our meetings and the insights they produce.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><span style=\"color: #9F4210;\">Hilary Mantel, twice winner of the Booker Prize for <i>Wolf Hall<\/i> and <i>Bring Up the Bodies<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;One does not soon forget the erudition, the obvious close reading, the imaginative empathy and, in short, the singular interviewing gifts of George Miller.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><span style=\"color: #9F4210;\">Sebastian Barry,<b> <\/b>twice winner of the Costa Book of the Year<\/span><i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0&#8220;<\/i><i>One of the most searching and therapeutic interviewers around, gets to the truths gently and elegantly.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><span style=\"color: #9F4210;\">Alain de Botton, author of <i>The Consolations of Philosophy<\/i>, <i>Status Anxiety<\/i>, <i>Religion for Atheists inter al.<\/span><\/i> <\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;I\u2019ve always enjoyed being interviewed by George Miller. He knows what he\u2019s talking about, he\u2019s read the book carefully, and he\u2019s got a great eye for an interesting question.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><span style=\"color: #9F4210;\">Mary Beard, Cambridge Professor of Classics and TV presenter<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0&#8220;<\/i><i>George is an outstanding interviewer: informed, intelligent and probing. He asks the sort of questions all authors should ask themselves, and presents the results in a professional, user-friendly package. I recommend him highly.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><span style=\"color: #9F4210;\">Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, author of <i>Becoming Dickens<\/i>, fellow and tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Yours was the first, and remains the best, of the interviews I did for my last book: searching questions, and imaginatively edited video, adding up to a more vivid impression of my intentions than I could have managed myself.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><span style=\"color: #9F4210;\">Francis Spufford, author of <i>The Child that Books Built<\/i>, <i>Red Plenty<\/i> and <i>Unapologetic<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Being interviewed by George is always a pleasure, not only because he reads the book thoroughly in advance (I wish I could say the same for all interviewers) but also because he asks some thought-provoking questions. You have to be on your toes a bit with him, and the result is usually a far more interesting podcast.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><span style=\"color: #9F4210;\">Simon Garfield, author of <i>Mauve<\/i>, <i>Just My Type<\/i> and <i>On the Map<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;George Miller has twice in recent months publicly interviewed me in connection with my book <\/em>Modernity Britain<em>. He performs this task in an attractively understated way, draws out the author through perceptive, well-chosen questions, and encourages audience participation while gently but firmly avoiding monologues from the floor. I know from extensive experience that interviewers at literary festivals and suchlike vary greatly in quality; and I can say with confidence that George is one of the best.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #9F4210;\">David Kynaston, historian<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We work a lot with George. He\u2019s an excellent interviewer \u2013 on stage and on film. Most important of all, audiences like his style and his knowledge. Feedback is never less than brilliant.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"color: #9F4210;\">Andrew Kelly, Director, Bristol Festival of Ideas<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The bespoke service George Miller provides of researching, interviewing and editing makes him the ideal person to work with Yale\u2019s authors to create unique audio and video content. Always flexible and inventive, George ensures that the process is seamless for both in-house teams and authors, and the end results always intrigue and delight.\u2019&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"color: #9F4210;\">C. Stafford, Head of Marketing, Yale University Press, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;My first choice of interviewer would always be George Miller: empathy and insight are both rare qualities, to be prized. I\u2019ve rarely felt so at ease as when talking to him, simply because he understands.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"color: #9F4210;\">Colin Matthews, composer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;George Miller has the author \/ publisher podcast market all sewn up. \u00a0No one is more assiduous, well-prepared and intelligent. It\u2019s not unusual, these days, to find yourself being interviewed by someone who hasn\u2019t read your book. \u00a0When I made the grave error of assuming this might be the case with George, he was extremely indignant!&#8221;*<br \/>\n<\/i><span style=\"color: #9F4210;\">Lucy Worsley, TV presenter and author of <i>If Walls Could Talk<\/i> and <i>Courtiers<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>* mock indignant [GM]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;George Miller is the kind of interviewer every writer dreams of meeting; subtle, generous and keenly alive to the work. 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