E207 - Emily Maitlis: How I Approached THAT Prince Andrew Interview

The High Performance Podcast

High Performance

Sports, Self-improvement, Mindset, Growth Mindset, Health & Fitness, Non-negotiables, Education, Life Lessons, High Performance

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This is the final episode of our new Leadership Series, sponsored by PwC, in which we will be diving deep into what it really takes to be a great leader.

Emily Maitlis is a journalist, presenter of the ground-breaking daily podcast The News Agents, documentary filmmaker and former BBC Newsnight anchor. She is known for her skilled and informative interviews including THAT interview for Newsnight. In this conversation, they explore what it means to be an excellent interviewer. They discuss how Emily creates a compelling narrative, how she prepares for each interview and what her main objective always is.

She shares with Jake and Damian how covering traumatic events, such as school shootings in the US, the Paris terror attacks and Grenfell, has taken its toll. They discuss how she, and the Newsnight team secured the highly significant Prince Andrew interview, and the immense pressure that came with it.

Thank you to PwC for sponsoring this special CEO Series. PwC’s purpose is to build trust and solve important problems, and their global strategy - The New Equation - is bringing this to life for their clients, people and society. By combining technology with human ingenuity, passion and experience, PwC works with organisations to deliver more intelligent, sustained outcomes.

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0:00.0	Hi there. You're listening to High Performance, the award-winning podcast that unlocks the
0:05.2	minds of some of the most fascinating people on the planet. I'm Jay Cumpfrey and alongside
0:10.1	Professor Damian Hughes, we learn from the stories, successes and struggles of our guests,
0:15.3	allowing us all to explore, be challenged and to grow. Here's what's in store today.
0:22.5	I was living off vodka and caffeine and it sounds crazy but the one was to wait you up
0:28.9	when you were too tired to think and the one was to send you to sleep when you were too
0:33.6	wired to sleep and I remember asking this dreadful question which every journalist recognises
0:39.6	and no human being ever wants to ask which is how many. If I'm doing an interview that leaves
0:48.5	people confused I failed and if I'm doing an interview which has interrupted or cut somebody
0:57.1	short or not got to the bottom of something I failed. I was the one person in the world
1:04.9	at that point who could ask the questions that the women wanted answering, right? That was all.
1:13.6	So today we welcome Emily Maitlist to High Performance. We actually recorded this in a live setting
1:18.9	in front of about a thousand people at a recent event that Damian and I hosted for PWC
1:24.8	and this leadership series is in association with PWC because they believe that we can build trust
1:30.9	and we can solve problems by putting human beings at the heart of our decision-making and that
1:36.4	plays so nicely into what we believe here at High Performance because you're about to hear
1:40.9	from a woman who was at the centre of the biggest royal interview in our lifetimes but this isn't
1:47.2	a conversation just about that interview. This is a conversation about the struggles of
1:52.3	covering trauma, the challenges of not actually knowing what tomorrow might bring,
1:57.2	but also how the interview that she did with Prince Andrew really raised her levels of doubt
2:03.1	and fear and how did she combat it, which she will talk to us about the power of preparation,
2:08.8	the importance of self-belief. It's a great conversation. It's also the final episode in our PWC
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