Annie Macron

Come along.

We'll set up the travel and you can come for an interview.

on this date at this address in London.

So I did.

The next station is Mile End.

Change here for the District and Hammersmith and City lines.

I went into this room and there was this sort of hippie chick.

Seriously, that's what she looked like.

Hair down to her waist and tiered skirts and all the rest of it.

Turned out she was a highly regarded officer in MI5 because I ended up working with her when I was in MI5.

But she just did not look the part.

And we had a three-hour conversation all about my life from the age of 12.

And then halfway through that conversation, she said, why do you think you're here?

Who do you think we are?

And I said, well, you, MI5.

I thought, if I've got this wrong, I'm going to sound like a... Yeah.

sign this, which was the Notification of the Official Secrets Act.

Right, straight away they got you.

Yeah.

But the weird thing was, this hippie chick was so unexpected and also very clear thinking and very reassuring about exactly what the positioning of MI5 was at that time.