In "A Matter of Principle" Australia's most experienced and well respected interviewer Jana Wendt engages an assortment of people in the worlds of politics, society, art, sport, music and architecture. Wendt gets under the skin of her subjects to discover that which is genuine and authentic about each. The elegant interviews reveal the thoughts of people such as art critic Robert Hughes, Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty, former US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer, writer David Malouf, actor Charlotte Rampling, architect Frank Gehry, artist Bill Henson, swimmer Shane Gould, and others.