I suddenly realize why David Attenborough is the giant he is. It is not just his geographic curiosity, not just his anthropological understanding, not just his gift for narration that simultaneously calms the soul and inspires the mind. It is… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
The hour or so I spent with the ninety-year-old David Attenborough was one of the most beatific of my life. An oddly religious term, I know, for a man who doesn't have much truck with religion, but it was the… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
I have facial blindness. It's hugely embarrassing as it makes me seem supercilious or snobbish. — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
It is the little things that throw me - the wrong pen, the wrong font. An interview done standing up is a disaster. I… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
I have heard somewhere an argument that if the Industrial Revolution - economic development - had started in Africa rather than Europe, then sun… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
There's no point meeting somebody with a meat cleaver the moment they open their mouth - because they're going to clam up, you're going… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
Fanny and Alexander' blew me away. I was visiting my sister in her first year at university. It was my first foray into something… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
Some interviews wind you up. Some test your mettle. Some reduce you to a gibbering wreck. — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
I think you go into a debate trying to be fair minded and trying to be balanced but occasionally there will be a sense… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
I don't think I would move into politics, but our job is often about pulling things down. It's about why something won't work, which… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
I think increasingly I really come to appreciate the people, the politicians, the interviewees, of any stripe and size who are able to answer… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
I moved from current affairs to daily news over the Asia crisis of 1998 - mainly because the news agenda demanded I become economically literate. — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I buy the argument that the public is more mistrustful - the debate will always garner that kind of traction because… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
I am always impressed by interviewers who can do the whole thing without notes. I can't. I need reminders on my knee. Dates, first… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
