Meet Abergavenny-based freelance journalist Jude Rogers. She regularly interviews musicians, actors, politicians and plenty of ordinary people for national newspapers and magazines. She knows more than most that speaking to people, and trying to understand them, can make our writing come alive.

But how do you do an interview? How do you prepare your questions (and your nerves)? How do you get people to speak? How do you write up your encounter in a way the reader will find relatable and revealing? And…what do you do if the interview goes wrong? Jude dishes out advice from over fifteen years writing for The Guardian, the Observer, the New Statesman, music and women’s magazines, teaching us skills transferrable to so many areas of our creative life