Between February and April 2011 Professor Allott was interviewed five times at his room off stairway F at Trinity College to record his reminiscences of almost sixty years of a varied career which was spent initially in various capacities at the FCO, and in later years in the Faculty of Law at Cambridge. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle.

These interviews were recorded and the audio version is available on this website with transcript of those recordings:

- First Interview (18 February 2011): Early Years (1937-1963)

- Second Interview (22 February 2011): The Foreign Office years (1960-1973)

- Third Interview (8 March 2011): Return to Cambridge (1973-1980)

- Fourth Interview (15 April 2011): Cambridge (1980-2004), retirement (2004 - present) & scholarly works

- Fifth Interview (22 April 2011): Scholarly works

For more information, see the Squire website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent_scholars/