Comments on: ON RADIO INTERVIEWS AND SPEED DATING

By: Carole Poustie

Carole Poustie — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:56:56 +0000

Oh – Gabrielle! I’ve heard a number of stories about interviewers like that. Euan Mitchell tells a funny one about an experience he had on radio with an interviewer notorious for never reading the books and depending on notes prepared by someone else. In Euan’s interview he dropped the notes and couldn’t get them in order again!

So glad you had the other interview to offset the first!

By: Gabrielle Wang

Gabrielle Wang — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:01:08 +0000

Susan,
Kate my publicist said you are brilliant. I am very much looking forward to our interview this morning.
Talk to you soon.
G

By: Susan @ ReadingUpsideDown

Susan @ ReadingUpsideDown — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:42:34 +0000

I’m phoning you today for an interview and am now hoping that I fall closer to your second interview experience than the first. I really enjoyed reading Little Paradise, so I guess that’s a good start.

By: Sheryl Gwyther

Sheryl Gwyther — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:42:14 +0000

Gabrielle, I feel for you! There’s nothing quite like feeling like a dill after an interview and knowing your message didn’t get through; the interviewer didn’t have a clue who you were and/or got the information all wrong. Glad the second one was brilliant!

Having three main points is the key – something I failed to do in both a radio and TV interview during the Parallel Import debate. There I was trying, ernestly, to explain the debate. Not the way to go apparently.

Oh, well, as you point out, Gabrielle, live and learn!