Scoops: Behind the Scenes of the BBC’s Most Shocking Interviews with Sam McAlister

**Please note this event has been rescheduled from Monday 19 September to Monday 17 October**

Sam McAlister is the producer responsible for some of the biggest scoops in broadcasting. To mark the publication of her new book Scoops: Behind the Scenes of the BBC’s Most Shocking Interviews, former Newsnight producer and 2021 WFTV Award winner Sam McAlister will be in conversation with WFTV’s CEO Katie Bailiff.

Sam McAlister is the woman who clinched the 2019 TV interview with Prince Andrew described as ‘a plane crashing into an oil tanker, causing a tsunami, triggering a nuclear explosion’. To her former BBC colleagues she was the ‘booker extraordinaire,’ responsible for securing many of Newsnight’s exclusive interviews over the past decade including Stormy Daniels, Sean Spicer, Brigitte Höss, Steven Seagal, Mel Greig and Julian Assange.

In this conversation with WFTV CEO Katie Bailiff, Sam will discuss the story behind that interview and the…