Well that can be intimidating and politicians can be intimidating, and particularly aged male politicians can be quite patronising and again, you have to kind of keep your cool, and keep your calm with things like that. A bit like the way a good interviewer will listen, a good interviewee will listen, and will think about what you’re asking them. And these days we've got racked up in a world whereby politicians are so paranoid about making mistakes that they've confined themselves. Don't speak very naturally, when they're interviewed, and that's a shame and some say that's the medias fault, and some say that's a politicians fault. It's probably a combination of the two. But always, always the best interviewee is, is the person who goes into it openly and honestly, and you know speaks without thinking too much beforehand possibly. I don't know. I mean sometimes it's interesting you can sit down with, I won't specifically name whoever but, thinking of someone beforehand, have a lovely chat, really informal, get on great, blather and gossip and this and that and the other. And then you see them physically change, you know when the red light comes on. And they go into 'serious politician' mode, and you think:' If you'd shown the audience what you were doing just then, you know the real natural person, they'd be much more inclined to warm to you'. So that's frustrating.

Rachel Burden, BBC Broadcaster

Interview via Harvey Thorneycroft [ Ссылка ]

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