This is a global original podcast.

Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project designed chiefly to let me spend more time

than is ordinarily available on my radio show with people who I want to spend more time with

than is ordinarily available on my radio show.

And time very much of the essence with this week's guest, Christia Ann Amampur,

we probably won't enjoy being described as the doyen of foreign correspondence

and now the London correspondent with the chief international anchor for CNN based in London.

I say time is of the essence because presumably you're sort of always dashing from pillar to post.

Always dashing from pillar to post.

And I really do appreciate you saying that about me because I take the part of my career,

which was being a foreign correspondent, you know, going around in the field and doing, you know,

some of the most interesting stories of the end of the 20th century in the beginning

of the 21st, very seriously, and I love it.

So if I'm the Doyen, James, I love it.

Thank you.

That's a relief.

How comfortable are you talking about yourself, which is what this interview is chiefly?

I thought you were going to ask me about yourself and all the other things.

Don't tempt me.

But is it?

Because you know the old story about journalists should never be the story themselves.

I heard you on Desert Island discs.

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