2025-03-03
29 分钟Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm producer Mia Sorrenti.
For this episode, we're rejoining for part two of our conversation with Sam McAllister, the BAFTA and Emmy nominated producer and author of Scoops behind the scenes of the BBC's most shocking interviews.
This is the second part of our two part episode.
Sam McCallister on scandals, scoops and the Prince Andrew interview.
If you haven't heard part one, do just jump back an episode and get up to spe.
But now it's time to rejoin the conversation recorded recently at the Kiln Theatre in London.
Here's our host for the evening, journalist and broadcaster Jenny Kleeman with more.
You're not just all about Prince Andrew, you have booked many other really big names.
Big interviews of the past decade have been down to you.
Who was the hardest to secure?
Prince Andrew aside?
Hmm.
I think probably the one that I didn't manage to secure, which was Sir Philip Green.
So I spent maybe two years talking to spg, as he's affectionately known, or they tried to turn him into pg.
And usually with Sir Philip it goes a little bit like this and I won't use foul language, but just picture the scene.
So you ring up your journalist, he goes, yeah, alright, what do you want?
And then you say that you're a journalist and then basically tells you to go F yourself.
But he and I managed to create a kind of friendship on the phone.
I spent about a year trying to persuade him to do the interview.