Eartha Kitt 1987. 'An extraordinary hour' said The Irish Times in 2018.

This is a re-post of one of my first podcasts in 2020. I am re-posting because I am currently reading through my journals for a proposed documentary that may be made about me, and I came across something wonderful Eartha Kitt, a woman I admired greatly, said to me after this interview in 1987. She said, "I feel you are interested in me, in the spirit of Eartha Kitt, not the image." I was. Also, this was one of my first interviews, and I was, from the start, doing my damndest to do interviews that outlasted the latest issue of whatever newspaper or magazine in which my articles appeared. I had no intention of giving my life over to throwaway interviews. That is why, in 2018, when The Irish Times choose the Eartha Kitt edition of my radio series, The Joe Jackson Tapes Revisited, as its radio highlight of the day and said it was "an extraordinary hour," I was delighted. It remains one of my favourite interviews. Enjoy.