Alan Bennett and Judi Dench are amazingly talented people who don't let you down when you meet them.

It's never much fun at school - it's just dates. Then as you get older, for some reason, you get more interested.

I never get bored of my wife. It's lovely.

Georgian England, to see those wonderful houses being built. And the clothes were interesting too, although I wouldn't want to wear a wig. It's also the most beautiful period of English landscape gardening. They had famous gardeners like Capability Brown.

People think cruises are for old folk, but they are amazing, as you get to see so many places, and you're never stuck as you're docked in a different port every day.

I had the heaviest paper round in Ilkley, West Yorks, and if you look at my shoulders one is still lower than the other. I also did a milk round for a day. It was awful. I was a very surly milkman, because it was very cold, very dark and very early. I am a lark, not an owl, but not in winter when it's chilly. Apart from that I went straight into gardening at 15.

I'm a big fan of the Queen. She carries herself well, as does the Prince of Wales, despite getting lots of stick.