emily maitlis is a colleague of mine. i worked with her at newsnight. very different — to play a living character. yes, very different, much more daunting, and particularly somebody that i respect and admire and is out and about in my relative social circle. she says she met you in 2001. she says she dined with you, danced with you. you bought her drinks... so more daunting even than margaret thatcher was playing emily maitlis. she can be quite daunting, while also being absolutely fabulous. and she in fact has her own drama coming up that she has produced about that same interview. do you think there's room for two dramas so close together about the same interview with prince andrew? i don't know. it's interesting, because the one that we did was sam mcalister�*s take. who was the producer. who was the producer, on what happened. and i'm very interested to see it. hopefully there is room. there is obviously room for both versions. often in britain we claim you as ours. but you're not, because you're actually american, of course. because you have lived