-bangare not bang stories. they are longer-term and you have to convince people they are important.is hard work. charlie: what is your attitude about the royal family? you have an attitude about the royal family. guest: i like them. and the connection between them and their public? guest: i don't think you can regularly do will stories without bringing to the whole question a sense of the absurd. and theyian landed were told that a modern country still had -- charlie: an 80-year-old woman with white hair. -- has done a good job as a clean -- queen. guest: an excellent job. you have to, i think without being irreverent and without being insulting, you have to help people along through that story by being perhaps whimsical. charlie: whimsical is probably the right word for it. certainly not the word for aleppo. guest: certainly not. charlie: someone with your experience, do you see a tragedy like that and think that you want to be there? honest,o be perfectly not that we have not been, the answer is yes and no. problem a particular for us because it is the first major conflict that we