Frances Whiting

This is, I don't know, maybe 15, 16 years ago.

You know, you would know, Sarah, there's either there's the all-in press pack or there's the round robin and there's a few journos or there's a one-on-one.

So I got a one-on-one and I got the time and I flew down and I was very confident that I was early and I was prepared.

And when I went up to the hotel room Robin was staying in,

The publicist more or less said to me, what are you doing?

Where have you been?

And I was like, what are you talking about?

I'm here.

And what had happened was neither she or I had taken daylight savings into account.

So she said to me, well, too late.

You've missed it.

Whereupon I very unprofessionally burst into tears because I knew I couldn't fly back to Brisbane and say, no, no, sorry, didn't get it.

So...

Maybe his assistant might have seen me and she went into the room and she came back out and she said something to the publicist and the publicist said to me, actually, Robin says to go on in.

So I went on in and he said, Frances, I'm sorry, have we kept you waiting?

He was just a delight.

He asked them would they make me a cup of tea.

He calmed me down.

We had a great interview and he very easily could have said, no, you know, she's missed out, so too bad.

It was about, I think it was 1990, and I was in Paris with my then boyfriend.