People gravitate towards their own era, nostalgia therapy is a real thing that's being tinkered with.

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

I'm somewhat socially inept. Slide me between two strangers at any light-hearted jamboree and I'll either rock awkwardly and silently on my heels, or come out with a stone-cold conversation-killer like, "This room's quite rectangular, isn't it?" I glide through the social whirl with all the elegance of a dog in high heels

I've always had a bad attention span.

I'm trying to think overall. Some of our stories [Black Mirror], I think you're right in that they don't tend to have a message.

The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.

I tried to be all intellectual and erudite and with others I'd just swear and curse and be an idiot. And suddenly, when they're all in one space, I don't know who I am.