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Alternative careers event: Interview with Sam McAlister, the Newsnight producer who negotiated the Prince Andrew interview

Name: Alternative careers event: Interview with Sam McAlister, the Newsnight producer who negotiated the Prince Andrew interview
Start: 2023-03-15T16:00:00+00:00
End: 2023-03-15T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Student Common Room, 5th floor

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March 15, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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Sam McAlister trained as a lawyer and worked as a criminal barrister, before leaving the bar to work at the BBC. After working on Law in Action on Radio 4, Sam became a producer on Newsnight, where she was known as a ‘booker extraordinaire’, responsible for negotiating Newsnight’s many exclusives, including Prince Andrew’s now infamous interview with Emily Maitlis. Sam’s book Scoops has been described as ‘a backstage pass to the most unforgettable journalism of our times’, and it is now in production as a major movie for Netflix, in which Sam is played by Billie Piper, Emily Maitlis by Gillian Anderson, Prince Andrew by Rufus Sewell and Prince Andrew’s private secretary by Keeley Hawes.

In this event, Emily Jackson (who first met Sam when she booked her to appear on Law in Action many years ago) will interview Sam McAlister and ask her about the relevance of her legal training for her work as a producer at the BBC.