John Humphrys is never entirely on message with the internal news mood music at Auntie. Relations between the Radio 4 Today team and Newsnight have historically been tense, but current editor Jamie Angus (former minder of Newsnight in the post-Rippon interregnum) goes running with Ian Katz, new Newsnight supremo, begetter of the political-interview-as intelligent-transaction-theory, and appreciative cross-tweets are the order of the day.
So, as John heads to the Radio Festival, he discusses interview techniques with The Independent, and the collateral damage potential is high. “Clearly Ian is worried that they haven’t been getting the big names, the senior politicians when they have needed them. But if the price is that you then go easy on them – and that was the price when David Frost was doing his programme – then I think it’s too high a price. ” Will someone smooth things over before we get to the Salford masterclass at tea-time ?
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