Shaking with excitement: Reminiscing on interviewing Parton as a young reporter

Nat WrightBBC Look North I was just over a year into my job as a BBC reporter at BBC Radio Sheffield when I landed the biggest interview of my career. In 2007, I was told to drive to Rotherham to interview the legendary Dolly Parton. I couldn’t believe my luck! I nervously got together my recording equipment and set off for the Magna Science Centre where she was launching a branch of the Imagination Library, a scheme giving free books to children every month. When I was ushered to join the press