Nicola Tallent

Not yet.

You're on the way.

Do you normally interview criminals themselves?

Sometimes, sometimes.

That's pretty cool.

So a bit of both, but usually actually, to be honest with you, we interview one another and we talk about stories that are, listen, we could have, we leave about 10 stories on the cutting room floor here practically every day.

So just a lot of crime going on in this country and the UK as well.

Yeah.

It's a bit different actually though in the UK, isn't it?

What crime?

Well, no, but you don't know the criminal figures by their first name.

Anymore.

There's loads of... And I mean, years ago, I think in the UK, there was this big obsession with organized crime around the time the Richardsons and the Krays and everybody sort of knew the names, didn't they?

Yeah.

But now it's like the UK is so vast and it's so multicultural.

And it's like as if, because I remember many years ago working for the Daily Mirror and they were just interested in celebrity.

And I, of course, was hoping that I'd be able to do some crime stuff in the UK, but they had no interest.

What fascinates you about crime?

I just find it... I suppose criminals are interesting people and they live on the edge, don't they?

And I like the whole idea of sitting around and organising a bank heist and getting down to the detail of it.