Prince Andrew thought the Newsnight interview had gone well. I just looked at the floor

How I found Prince Andrew's 'sweet spot' and secured the infamous Newsnight interview 🔵 SamMcAlister1 for ipaperviews

Fifteen feet. That’s how far I am from the back of Prince Andrew’s chair.

That was in Buckingham Palace, almost three years ago, in November 2019. I was the interviews producer at BBC. The negotiator. I had started these particular negotiations months earlier. It began with an innocuous email in 2018. It ended with. A year of emails, meetings, back and forth, to and fro – the merry dance an interviews producer does between persistence and being a pain in the arse.

We first heard it all days before, in the final face to face negotiation. I barely dared to believe he’d actually say it on camera. But he did. It was the interview that launched a thousand memes, that rallied the nation behind the inescapable truth: thatThe reason we all got to hear his answers that day was because of months and months of painstaking negotiation. I had to convince him, to convince his chief of staff, Amanda Thirsk, that an interview was the right thing to do.

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