In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.

I am neurotic, and I'm a worrier.

That's not something that we've gone in thinking 'Right! How are we going to examine that now?' It's just when you take a step back you see that they're actually all sort of in that mode.

I actually had that conversation with [Channel 4 Chief Creative Officer] Jay Hunt. We were at a bit of a crisis point. I'd written a totally different script - about war, basically - that got rejected at the last minute for various reasons. The whole of the series was in doubt. I said, "Well, there is one other idea ["National Anthem"]."

I'm not some anti-technology person. I think it's often how people would assume that if they don't know me.

I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom.

Technology is a global thing and wherever you go, people are prodding the same devices and worrying in the same way and have had their lives slightly altered in the same way.