Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.