Ep.66 What a scoop!
The Tip Off
The Tip Off
4.7 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
You will have heard about the BBC Newnight interview with Prince Andrew - it was a seismic scoop that reverberated around the world.
But how did it happen? The answer is one woman: Sam McAlister. This is how she bagged the interview of the decade.
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| 0:00.0 | The future is unpredictable at times, that the Open University are the experts in distance learning, allowing you to fit study around your life. |
| 0:11.3 | What's more, you'll have support from dedicated tutors every step of the way. |
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| 0:20.2 | Registered by the 9th of January to get started the open university |
| 0:26.6 | the future is open back in 2019 I was travelling through Italy. |
| 0:38.7 | I was on a train outside Rome when my phone started pinging with messages. |
| 0:43.8 | Group chats going off. |
| 0:46.6 | Have you seen the Prince Andrew interview? |
| 0:49.4 | Do you regret that trip? |
| 0:51.1 | Yes. |
| 0:51.7 | Do you regret the whole friendship with Epstein? |
| 0:57.0 | Now, still not, and the reason being is that the people that I met and the opportunities |
| 1:05.0 | that I was given to learn, either by him or because of him |
| 1:13.4 | were actually very useful. |
| 1:15.8 | There are some moments in TV news |
| 1:17.7 | that become must-see events. |
| 1:20.3 | But they don't just happen by magic. |
| 1:23.3 | I'm Dave McLennigan. |
| 1:24.8 | This is the Tip-Oth. |
| 1:54.4 | Music I'm Dave McLanagan. This is the Tip-Oth. I'm Sam McAllister and I used to be the interviews producer at BBC Newsnight and now I'm author, speaker and random other activities. |
| 2:02.2 | Sam's path into TV journalism wasn't a straight line. She actually started out studying law. She was the first in her family to go to university, and it seemed like the right serious choice for someone with academic flair. She studied hard |
| 2:08.6 | and went on to become a criminal barrister, and for a while it suited her. Given how much I loved |
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