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Of it, and everything was very good—natu red. do you think that's because you didn't have an audience, that they didn't pick up on how people were reacting to them? a bit like the way that big brother contestants emerge from the house and don't realise how the tv audience has reacted to them? well, i hadn't thought of that comparison, necessarily, but i thought, you know, a lot about it since. i think that may well have been a factor. it is so intense when you are in that space, it is so intense, and i am used to doing it with an audience on the other side or behind me, and you can pick up o...

Things planned and done - in a measured way because, frankly, as a journalist in the middle of it, - you know, that is- obviously helpful to you. but itv has taken a bit of a different view- about the idea of a debates commission, because itv,| you know, their position is l that it's for the broadcasters to make the invitation. we decide the programme format and we do it in a sort of mixed . economy way, if you like. sometimes, we've had seven party leaders, . we've had head—to—heads, - sometimes there are programmes where the candidates are - interrogated by an audience. there's a whole d...

Rather than something that was coordinated and structured and organised more properly. julie etchingham from itv, would you prefer this to be a centralised system where someone rings you up whether you're away with your husband or doing something else and says, "actually, this is definitely what is going to happen." you don't have to sit there wondering. that is part of myjob, - can ijust be perfectly clear. we know that that comes with the territory. - it's part of myjob- and ijust get on with it. that is what we are here for. the thing is, you know, the certainty element, i especially if you...

Happened have been really substantial in terms of what they have revealed, and i think they opened up a debate that had been going on behind closed doors, behind the scenes, and also opened up the rivalry and the vitriol between some of the candidates that had been going on behind the scenes and with briefings of newspapers. i was quite surprised, in some ways, that they were as open as they ended up being, but i think as exercises, they were substantial. but, presumably, jonathan at sky news, you have concluded that one of the reasons yours didn't go ahead was because of what happened during ...

It had always been a shoestring operation. it was really self—funded, pretty much, by neubauer and bernard. and so the study pretty much came to a close, but there were other problems, too. in the late 1970s, there was a real interest in informed consent procedures in this country. arthur caplan is a professor at nyu and medical ethics expert. so the landscape of ethics in research during the �*60s was a mixed bag. we'd had terrible experiments conducted by german scientists under the nazi regime in the concentration camps, and as a result it issued codes of ethics to bind researchers inte...