I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

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

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.

A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.