One person. One long conversation.
Interviews with people who do the work, published whole with a transcript. Not the famous and not the loud: the people a city, a village or a hospital actually runs on. No interview has been recorded yet. The first will appear on Watch and here.
Who we want to talk to
Kinds of people,
not names.
We have not asked anyone yet, so there are no names to show. These are the kinds of work we want to hear about first, at length, from someone who does it every day.
Nurses and midwives
What a shift is actually like, what good care costs in time, and what they wish families understood.
Teachers
How a lesson is built, how a class is read, and what changed in twenty years of children.
Water and power engineers
The people who keep taps running and lights on, and what breaks when nobody is looking.
Farmers and food makers
A year on one piece of land, or a week in one kitchen, told by the person whose name is on it.
Librarians and archivists
What people ask for, what gets lost, and how a collection is kept honest over decades.
People who repair things
Shoes, engines, radios, roofs: how something is brought back, and why so few people still do it.
Translators and interpreters
Standing between two people who cannot understand each other, and getting it right under pressure.
People who run small places well
A clinic, a shelter, a school, a shop that everyone in the neighbourhood depends on and nobody writes about.
Someone we have not thought of
If you know a person whose work is difficult and useful and rarely explained, tell us who.
Rules we keep
What we will
not do.
An interview is a loan of someone's trust. These are the terms.
No cutting an answer to mean something else.
Trims for length, yes. Changes of meaning, never. The full transcript is there to check.
No hidden recording.
The camera is visible, the recording is agreed, and the person knows when it starts and stops.
No payment either way.
Nobody pays to be interviewed and nobody is paid to be.
No generated voices or faces, ever.
If a person is on screen, that person sat in front of the camera.
No publishing without consent.
Consent given in advance, confirmed after the cut, and withdrawable before release.
Corrections on the page, with the date.
If we got something wrong, we say so where the mistake was. [email protected]
The shelf
Interview 01 is not recorded yet.
When it is, this card becomes a real one: a face, a name, a place, a running time and a transcript.
Not yet recorded
A person doing difficult, useful work · their place · running time to follow · transcript to follow
Release notes
Hear when the first
interview is out.
One email when a programme is released, and nothing else. No weekly newsletter, no offers, no reminders.