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“It needs to be surprising to get on air”

Dubai Eye’s Georgia Tolley loves the adrenaline spike of coming up with the goods every day

Credit: Joachim Magtoto

Maths has never been my strong point, but I sat down recently and figured out that every year I do over 1,500 on-air interviews. Six a day, five days a week, 260 three-hour radio shows a year.

But if somebody asks me my favourite interviewee, I’m always completely stumped. The churn is just too quick – I can’t keep up with all the stories I cover and all the people I interview. The news agenda is incessant.

That makes it sound exhausting, and some days the grind gets to me, but mostly it’s exhilarating. Also, professionally it is almost all I have ever known – I have always worked on live


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