Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

I've learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn't seem such an alien place to be.

People who had been treated inhumanly, not given a chance to secure any foot on any ladder - and all the social mores were suddenly abandoned.

My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.

The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.

I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.

I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.