Having interviewed such great choreographers as Merce Cunningham, Pina Bausch and Trisha Brown, I'd always been fascinated by the legendary underground movements they sprang from.
Having interviewed Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg in the lead-up to the last election, I'd say Clegg was the most "everyman".
Having interviewed the Clerk of the Course and the Senior Inspector of Courses and viewed video recordings the Stewards adjourned their enquiry until the following day.
Having interviewed Ahed two years after she first shot to prominence, the Guardian's then Jerusalem correspondent, Harriet Sherwood, wrote last year about her youthful political awareness.
Having interviewed Garai a couple of years ago, when she was not yet pregnant, but playing a character who was, at the Royal Court Theatre in London, I knew how open she was to frank bodily chit-chats.
Having interviewed and befriended some enormously brave people there who have been pushing for liberty and democracy, Ms. Wright decided a few years ago that enough signs of progress were emerging to merit a deeper look at the phenomenon.
Having interviewed Larson in the last hours of his life, I've gotten pleasure, and a measure of comfort, from knowing that his show is still going strong in New York and around the world.
Having interviewed him several years ago, I can verify not just the charm but an intelligence that wasn't what you'd have expected from someone who looked like a male model impersonating a rock star.
Having interviewed more than 1,200 former captives, his challenge, he says, was to create a trauma counselling programme that could be applied in multiple locations, in another language, for a "devastated group who have endured multiple genocides".
Having interviewed hundreds of women about "what they know now", I still hear a lot of judgment about how we work and raise families … but it's less about other women's choices than it is validating our own.
Having interviewed Debbie Martyr (research conservationist with Flora and Fauna International) 12 years ago about her apparent sighting of the primate cryptid the orang pendek in Sumatra and more recently interviewing ape expert Ian Redmond on his research into sasquatch/big foot (supported by David Attenborough and Jane Goodall), over the years I have acquired a fascination for primate cryptids.
