After all, six weeks before, an interviewer had surprised me and perhaps himself by asking me a question about Van Morrison - the first I'd ever heard - gleaned from the pages of something called a book.
In those days before interviewers were dogged by protective PRs, I travelled with Clapton and his band (soon to metamorphose into Derek and the Dominos), hung out with them between gigs and watched every show from the wings.
The ten households to be interviewed, and the three nearest neighbors of each, were identified by the team leader before interviewers approached the household.
These studies suggest a special training programme for interviewers before interviewing elderly.
Mr. Randall, who has been a corporate consultant since leaving CNN in 2001, had worked with Chevron once before, as an interviewer of the company's chief executive for a corporate Web video.
For each point (category) the respondent was allowed to freely express his/her opinion and each respondent was asked whether they had anything further to add before the interviewer proceeded to the next item on the interview guide.
Knocking out back-to-back television and Web interviews, Ms. Rimes repeatedly brought up her personal life before the interviewer even asked.
I love 'em!" he would cry, before the interviewer had asked one question; and twitching aside his striped butcher's apron he would show, on his own plump anatomy, the best bits of a pig for his purpose.British commercial sausages, before he arrived on the scene, were poor limp things, flaccidly pink, that would burst and stick in the pan (hence "banger") and lie heavy on the stomach.
Never sit down before the interviewer, and don't throw yourself in the chair like a teenager preparing to sink into a vegetative state in front of the TV.
