Tina Brown

And so, yeah, some of the staff, like Mr Bartlett, who had a wry sense of humour, thought that I had it right.

Well, I started to realize that, you know, what I just needed to do was to write, you know, to write about things.

I had a writer's eye.

You know, I was seeing things in a skewy way.

And so when I got – well, I started writing plays, actually.

That was my first desire.

And I did write plays.

When I was at Oxford, I wrote a play called Under the Bamboo Tree.

And we did it at Oxford.

And then we took it to the Edinburgh Fringe.

And from there, actually, it transferred to the Bush Theatre.

And so it was kind of done on the fringe in London.

And both the plays I did actually were done at the Bush Theatre on the fringe.

So that's where I thought I was going.

I thought I was becoming a playwright.

But at the same time, I'd also kind of signed up to work on the Oxford magazine.

which was called, rather unfortunately today, ISIS.

And I started writing everything in it.

I started sort of writing everything in it.

My best friend was the editor, and I kind of began to feel somehow that I loved the kind of collegiality of journalism.