Amol Rajan Interviews Greta Thunberg; Rob Burrow: Living with MND

“Rajan’s friendly but never patronising approach was effective in the latest instalment of Amol Rajan Interviews. He probed rather than ‘gotcha’d’ Thunberg on a range of topics from fracking, nuclear energy and what some regard as her failure to offer specific policy solutions. Most adults would struggle to deal with a fraction of the attention she gets, and her articulacy, composure and fierce intelligence in the face of death threats (plus a desire for every statesman on earth to be pictured with her) was remarkable.”
Ben Dowell, The Times

“Rajan’s relaxed style is what marks him out from other BBC journalists, and isn’t to everyone’s taste. It seemed to put Thunberg at her ease, though, as they chatted away beside a picture window looking out onto the London Wetlands Centre (a nice touch).”
Anita Singh, The Telegraph

“Thunberg has sacrificed her youth to tackle the climate emergency, having realised that it demands a radical reimagining of our whole way of life. Now she is doomed to the pure hell of arguing with people who cannot conceive of that way of life changing.”
Jack Seale, The Guardian

“Stories of people heroically battling disease are a common sight on TV these days, but this one cut through with particular power because of the kindness and unsparing honesty of its personalities. Making flesh the biggest subjects — mortality, the fragility of life and what love means — was quite an achievement in less than 30 minutes of telly.”
Ben Dowell, The Times

“This was an honest depiction of MND, which Burrow described as ‘making you a prisoner in your own body’. While it’s quite impossible to put yourself in the position of his family or imagine how they get through each day, I was welling up every five minutes. Their fortitude was to be applauded and the film did an exemplary job telling their story.”
Ed Power, The i