Hello and welcome to the political party. Today's guest is Rob Burley, who has produced

some of the biggest political TV shows of the era. The Daily Politics, the Sunday politics,

this week politics live at the Andrew Neal show, the Andrew Mars show, all sorts of things

and he is obsessed with long form political interviews. So this was the natural place for him

to come and have a long chat and he's got a new book out. Why is this lying bastard lying

to me? 25 years of searching for the truth on political telly. I've put the link to that

in the blurb so that you can just click on that and buy it. But this is a really good mix of

personal insight and just how long form political interviews in this country, well,

firstly, there are very few of them, but we talked specifically about Andrew Neal,

interview in Boris Johnson in 2019 and just the planning that goes into an interview like that,

but also the role of the producer and whether they speak to Andrew Neal in his ear. And if so,

when and what do they say and our short interventions better, our long interventions better,

have you pre-prepared stuff? This is a really good inside story, the mechanics of

television, political interviews, but Robby's also obsessed with the history of political interviews

and the reason why there aren't really long form political interviews on television. So

this is a real mix of brilliant stories, particularly about Fatter and Brian Walden,

but also his personal experience of working with Andrew Neal, Andrew Mar and various other top

rank talents. He also worked with Beth Rigby on Sky News, so there's a whole load of

context about various interviews and this is just absolutely superb. So if you want to buy the book

and it sounds fantastic, you can click on the link, either way, enjoy Rob Burley, and of course

the next live show of the political party is on Monday, the 5th of June with Philip Hammond,

the former chancellor, getting his view on the last few weeks, months and years in the Tauri party

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