A reporter can ask for a break at any point and nobody questions it, because everybody assumes it is the machine or your hands.

I went into a corridor and stood there for four minutes.

Because what I heard was a person saying something that was almost certainly not true in a tone of complete sincerity, and I had done exactly that, in a police station, four days after the worst morning of my life, about a child.

It does not happen often now.

It happened perhaps nine times in the first year and twice last year.