Interviews with artists and sitters
These resources include transcriptions of video interviews with sitters and artists on the Portrait Explorer in the IT Gallery and on the Audio Guide and interviews with photographers for the website. All explore how contemporary portraits were realised. Transcriptions of historic recordings from the National Sound Archive of the voices of well-known sitters in the Gallery's collection are also included on the Audio Guide.
Contemporary sitters
Transcripts of interviews with sitters on the Portrait Explorer and Audio Guide.
Alan Bennett
Bobby Charlton
A.S. Byatt
Germaine Greer - Portrait Explorer
Germaine Greer - Audio Guide
John Hurt
Kazuo Ishiguro
P.D. James
Neil and Glenys Kinnock
George Melly
Jonathan Miller
John Mortimer
Mo Mowlam
Women's Page Contributors to The Guardian
Artists
Transcripts of interviews with artists on the Portrait Explorer and Audio Guide.
Glenys Barton
Peter Edwards - Portrait Explorer
Peter Edwards - Audio Guide
Maggi Hambling
Allen Jones
John Keane
Andrew Logan
David Mach
Ishbel Myerscough
Humphrey Ocean
Stuart Pearson Wright
Tom Phillips
Paula Rego - Portrait Explorer
Paula Rego - Audio Guide
Sara Rossberg
Tai-Shan Schierenberg - Portrait Explorer
Tai-Shan Schierenberg - Audio Guide
Michael Taylor
Andrew Tift
Tom Wood - Portrait Explorer
Tom Wood - Audio Guide
Other sitters
Transcripts of historic recordings with sitters from the National Sound Archive on the Audio Guide.
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baden-Powell
Neville Chamberlain
Thomas Sterns ('T.S.') Eliot
Sir Jacob Epstein
Edward Morgan Forster
King George V
King George VI
David Lloyd George, 1st Early Lloyd-George
William Ewart Gladstone
Dorothy Hodgkin
John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes
Rudyard Kipling
Constant Lambert
Ramsay MacDonald
Henry Moore
Florence Nightingale
Sir Peter Pears
Dame Edith Sitwell
Dame Ellen Terry
Dylan Thomas
Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII)
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor
Virginia Woolf
Photographers
Transcripts of interviews with photographers on the Portrait Explorer and website.
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
David Buckland
James Hunkin
Barry Marsden
Lewis Morley
Alistair Morrison
Terry O'Neil
Flash interviews with audio
Bryan Wharton
Jill Furmanovsky
Jillian Edelstein
Jonnie Shand Kydd
Tom Miller
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- Glenda Jackson (NPG 6224)
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- Michael Caine; Bob Hoskins (NPG x126162)
- Woody Allen; Mia Farrow (NPG x126154)
- Tilda Swinton (NPG x36297)
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; Queen Elizabeth II (NPG x126160)
- Tsou Sheung Tsun (NPG x126363)
- Lesley J. Yellowlees (NPG x126364)
- Jim Al-Khalili (NPG x126339)
- Angus Lamond (NPG x126350)
- A. A. Gill (NPG x126300)
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