I can't help thinking that what she sounded like on a TV-style recording would only be an indication of a face-to-face encounter if they were using a boom mike. And to the best of my knowledge, that's not what they do on BBC news unless it's an Outside Broadcast - in the studio everyone is fitted with an individual mike and battery pack, so that you hear what they are saying rather than the background noise of the studio. How well you hear them largely depends on where the mike is attached to the person's clothes (particularly in this case, was her mike outside or underneath the drapery?) and how well the sound engineers have balanced the feeds from each mike.