Elliot's taste for the media was first whetted at age 14 when she volunteered for BBC Radio Nottingham as a link presenter on the Scout and Guide radio jamboree programme, with a bit of interviewing thrown in.
As it happened, this bit of post-interview interviewing was caught on tape — and promptly broadcast by Russia Today, an English-language television channel designed, among other things, to convince foreign audiences that Russia is a democratic country.
Fuse does offer plenty of live music: "Sessions @ AOL," which like many of Fuse's offerings shares its brand with a sponsor, presents straightforward, hourlong studio performances interspersed with brief bits of interviews.
VIJAY IYER AND MIKE LADD The jazz pianist Vijay Iyer and the rapper-poet Mike Ladd have a history of collaborating on dense song cycles with social or political context; "Holding It Down" deals with minority veterans returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan, incorporating bits of interviews with specific soldiers.
What's the process like to join a crew? A. There is a bit of an interview, but you really just sign up.
But Thursday's political response sidetracked that tricky bit of the interview and focused on the discrimination laws, on which greater mainstream consensus exists.
But I thought if I kept putting questions to him that he wouldn't answer it might be the best bit of the interview.
And so, even though it might be the best bit of the interview, the reference is quietly cut in the edit suite.
The loveliest bit of the interview: driving in her car, Palin said, "I promised Piper that this time I would keep my distance, so that I don't disrupt the fun she has planned for herself and her friends".
For my money, the most revealing bit of the interview came elsewhere, when Mrs Clinton explained the constraints placed on her by the president when she first took office as America's chief diplomat and Mr Obama described the role that his secretary of state played in his administration.
