In September 2003 I was working for a website that recorded in depth autobiographies of people who had made a significant contribution to their field. The site had begun working exclusively with scientists, and I had been brought in to broaden its scope to the arts. The idea behind the site was magnificent- that you could see these extraordinary people telling their own story, and then different parts of the stories could be cross referenced to someone else talking about the same subject. When I joined we had recorded two of the physicists who worked at Los Alamos developing the atomic bomb in the 1940’s, and their two separate takes on that time were fascinating. But I was having trouble getting people to agree…