Why Five Mintues With… is frustrating me.
Just spotted this over on the BBC News website, a series of 5 minute interview with various people, chaired by Matthew Stadlen. They’ve just posted one for Michael Portillo, and it’s left me feeling a little bit… cheated. It’s clear that a lot of preparation has been done by Stadlen on his subjects, and I can’t see any notes or list of questions, but there seems to be one thing missing in these interviews, and that is listening to the answers. The Michael Portillo interview is a good point here; partly because Portillo gives such short answers and Stadlen has
