I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out.

I like being forced to think about things in a different way.

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.

I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.