Tobias Menzies in Broadcast - "Fifteen Minutes"

Fifteen Minutes

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By Sarah Wooley

"Making money is art, and working is art and good business is the best art." - Andy Warhol

Set in New York in the heady days of Studio 54, in the late 1970s and early 80s, "FifteenMinutes" looks at the later period in Andy Warhol's life when he was painting portraits to commission and running 'Interview' magazine. Young editor, Bob Colacello has the bright idea of hiring the ageing Truman Capote to do celebrity interviews. In exchange for his monthly column, Capote would be gifted a portrait. And so began one of the most complicated and explosive of collaborations.


A BBC Scotland production directed by Gaynor Macfarlane.


Release date:

24 August 2015

27 days left to listen

45 minutes

Last on


BBC RADIO 4


Credits - Role

Bob Colacello - Will Howard

Andy Warhol - Tobias Menzies

Truman Capote - Adrian Rawlins

Fred Hughes - David Seddon


Director - Gaynor Macfarlane

Writer - Sarah Wooley