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More can be achieved through culture than any other government policy, Bush Theatre’s Madani Younis tells Decca Aitkenhead ahead of the theatre’s re-opening.

Most interviewees keep up a best-behaviour version of their public self while the Dictaphone is on, leaving me to work out what they’re really like from the clues they unwittingly drop. Deploying guesswork in order to divine authenticity might sound odd, but I like to flatter myself that I can be quite good at it. have to admit, however, that had Madani Younis stuck to the smooth, PR-friendly persona he greets me with, no private version I might have imagined... Keep reading on The Guardian