Natascha Kampusch, the young Austrian woman who survived an eight-year kidnap ordeal in a basement near her home in Vienna, will be seen for the first time tonight as her eagerly awaited first television interview is aired nationwide on the ORF public broadcaster. Unfortunately ORF isn't broadcasting the interview on its website for those of us not in Austria, but you'll be able to hear it on Radio Wien's website from 20.15 local time (19.15 BST). [Thursday update - you can now see a video clip from the interview on ORF's website.]
And if you can't wait that long, print interviews are coming out this afternoon in the Austrian tabloid Krone and the magazine News.
ORF has already released substantial details about the content of the TV interview with journalist Christoph Feurstein. They said Ms Kampusch will not be hidden or disguised, barring any last-minute change of heart by her. It was the young woman who decided what she wanted to talk about, and there are no "intimate" questions. According to the channel, she appeared "stable and self-confident" and at one point she described how she tried to signal for help with her eyes on the rare occasions when her kidnapper allowed her contact with other people.
Nevertheless there is bound to be a huge audience keen to see exactly what the young woman looks like after her ordeal. According to ORF she bears only a remote resemblance to the computer-generated likeness that has been published around the world.
