Terry Prone: Good questions don’t necessarily cut it with a difficult interviewee

Interviewing George Best didn't go too well for Terry Prone as a young journalist but worse was to come with writer Lawrence Durrell

Writer Lawrence Durrell proved to be a difficult interviewee for Terry Prone in her younger days as a radio journalist. File picture: Terry Disney/Express/Getty

Here are two claims which should never be made by any broadcaster: I ask the tough questions. I have interviewed (list of famous people). 

Any fool in a position of power can ask tough questions, and few positions are more powerful than that of a radio/TV presenter. Questions should be judged not by their vigour but by their outcome.