Hush-hush speed read

TOM BrADBY kept Spare’s secrets over Christmas after being granted an exclusive sight of the text in advance of his interview with Prince harry, broadcast on Sunday.

‘We were asked to hand over our coats, phones and laptops and taken to a room with four laptops open with the book loaded electronically and watermarked with our individual names,’ says Ian rumsey, ITn Productions’ managing director. ‘It was our only chance to see the book, and equipped with just notepads and pens, we read all 410 pages in nine hours.’

A shame that fast-talking Bradby wasn’t asked to voice the audiobook, which clocks in at 15 hrs, 37 mins of harry’s reedy whine.