Met Commissioner Cressida Dick on the challenges facing the police in London – and the problem with TV crime dramas. There is good news for the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service on the morning of our interview, and there is bad news. The highest-ranking police officer in the land – and the first woman …
Grief derailed Robert Peston after his wife died but now he has a new job – and a new Sunday morning TV series. Robert Peston arrives 30 minutes late in a burst of scrambled energy that makes the air quiver, squeaks “sorrysorrysorrysorry” in a highpitched falsetto worthy of Freddie Mercury, before collapsing in a chair …
As Live at the Apollo returns tonight for a new series, read Ginny Dougary’s interview with host Eddie Izzard in which he talks about his ambitions to enter politics, learn more languages, run more marathons and start a family. The lights cascade down in neon green and flashing blue, the electronic music pounds to a …
David Dimbleby has his nose deep in a book, literally. He keeps turning the splendid crimson and gold tome over and over, almost inhaling it. It belonged to his broadcasting giant of a father, Richard – who died at the age of 52 in 1965 – but he is not trying to summon his spirit. …
There’s a tremendous din in the Chelsea restaurant that John Simpson has picked for our interview. He turns up bang on time and is concerned that I’ve been waiting for him. We’re sitting in a booth and as a former rugby player and boxer – which he tells me later in the context of his …
David Attenborough on… Frozen Planet. “The stuff we cut out is awful. We’re not in the business of making fairy stories but, equally, we’re not in the business of pornographic gore.” “If I go back and look at stuff I did 15 or 20 years ago, almost invariably I think to myself that there are …
Sir Richard Branson, with his 300-plus companies, has been an ambassador for entrepreneurship, crazy sporting activities (attempting world records in hot-air ballooning; playing golf in the dark), space travel and, with his most recent announcement, deep-sea exploration (Virgin Oceanic). But now, perhaps, a new frontier-breaking role awaits him: the grand ambassador for dope. He is …
Andrew Brown on Ginny Dougary’s interviews and specifically with the Archbishop of Canterbury. The long Ginny Dougary interview with Dr Williams in The Times was interesting for almost everything but the headline. “Gay Bishops are all right by me, says Archbishop” was no more than averagely misleading by headline standards. But was it really front-page news, as …
What a funny old life the Archbishop of Canterbury leads. The ABC, as he is known by his staff, loathes our celebrity culture – when I ask him what statement he is least likely to make, he says: “Our problem is that there aren’t enough reality shows on television” – and, yet, he is bemused …
He was a world-renowned industrialist whose secret life as a gay man led to his downfall. For the first time, Lord Browne talks about the day he was outed, losing his job and falling in love again. Photo: Phil Fisk. Lord Browne of Madingley rebukes me in the gentlest way when I make the mistake …