I rushed home this evening to catch the interview. No not yesterday’s fascinating Jacko documentary with Martin Bashir, but today’s showing of an interview that Tony Benn conducted with Saddam Hussein at the weekend.
I can’t pretend it was the most involving interview ever, with sometimes easy questions being lobbed at Saddam, and his ponderous answers not being the sort of thing you expect Jeremy Paxman puts up with.
Nonethless, an extraordinary interview with one of the most important players in the current catastrophe.