Julian Barnes: The FULL INTERVIEW - BBC Newsnight
Booker prize-winning novelist
Julian Barnes speaks to
Kirsty Wark about his new book based on the life of
Shostakovich,
The Noise of
Time. This is an extended version - just for YouTube - of the interview which aired on
28 January. It covers art and power, heroism and cowardice, free speech and no-platforming,
Russia under Putin, and more.
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