HE LATE Gillian Rose's life and work have attracted interest both inside and outside the academy. Her philosophical memoir, Love's Work, candidly addresses her struggle with ovarian cancer, and it reached a wide popular audience. Articles on Rose's thought have appeared in journals of philosophy, theology, Jewish studies, sociology, literature and cultural studies. However, her dense prose makes reading her academic writing a formidable challenge. The interview published here, conducted one month before her premature death, offers an accessible point of entry into Rose's thought and a bridge between her autobiographical and philosophical writing.In the interview, whether she is discussing Oxford philosophy, feminism, LSD or her Jewish upbringing, Rose is direct and opinionated. The interviewer, Andy O'Mahony for RTE Radio, offers searching questions that range from solicitations to explicate passages from her writings to delicate personal queries. The interview is presented here only lightly edited for readability (a few overly personal passages about her sister, Jacqueline, their father and other acquaintances have also been omitted). Rose's sometimes idiosyncratic language usage remains, suggesting the subtle awkwardness of the self-educated. Although dyslexic, Rose was fascinated by language. She taught herself German by reading Adorno and Wittgenstein, she kept a collection of 36 Bibles in different languages, and she made sure there was a dictionary in every room of her house.Particularly notable in the interview are Rose's comments on religion. Perhaps because of her deathbed conversion to Christianity, a number of writers have suggested that Rose's pre-conversion scholarly work was crypto-Christian. Rose grappled with her personal religious commitments, and considered herself 'too Jewish to be Christian and too Christian to be Jewish' -until her final day. This ambivalence is reflected in the interview, and the only firm commitment that Rose makes is to the (Socratic) philosophical enterprise. Rose calls Socrates 'almost my Christ figure', she