Exploring Charisma, Manipulation, and the Unforeseen Fallout of Interviews

Emily Maitlis is one of the most well-known and successful broadcast journalists in Britain. She’s covered the biggest stories of our times – and interviewed some of the most famous and powerful people, including Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Russell Brand and Prince Andrew.

More recently she’s become one of the lead presenters of the highly rated podcast, The News Agents.

During our conversation in this part, we discuss Emily's choldhood, how she became a journalist and how it feels to have witnessed first hand some of the biggest moments of recnt history.

This is part one of our conversation, part two will be released on Thursday 8th February.

This episode was produced by Red Bicycle.