Khalid Mish'al is widely regarded as the most senior figure in Hamas, the Islamist resistance movement that two years ago won a landslide victory in the Palestinian general election. Third Way found him at home in Damascus.
Dr Francis Collins led the international team that in 2003 finally spelt out the genetic recipe from which our bodies are 'fearfully and wonderfully made'. Third Way got him to the phone.
Eleven weeks into his new job as leader of the Liberal Democrat Party, Nick Clegg was in a ruminative mood when Third Way spoke to him in his office in the Palace of Westminster.
On stage, Ben Elton has been known to deliver 10,000 revolutions a minute, but the man they called 'Motormouth' was just ticking over quietly when Third Way met him over a latte in west London.