Five Minutes With: AA Gill

11 February 2012 Last updated at 03:27 ET Help

Journalist and author AA Gill talks to Matthew Stadlen about why he is known by his initials, why he enjoys writing novels, how he "failed" his way into journalism and why art classes are like Switzerland.

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