I'd just find a story in Canada and come and do it. Combine harvester banger - actually I've done that: banger racing up in Red Deer [in Alberta, for his 1998 doc series Extreme Machines].

Like every big organisation these days, the BBC is obsessed with the wellbeing of those who set foot on its premises. Studios must display warning notices if there is real glass on the set, and the other day I was presented with a booklet explaining how to use a door. I am not kidding.

If a football official were to call for a slow-motion replay every time Didier Drogba fell over, each match would last about six weeks.

God may have created the world in six days, but while he was resting on the seventh, Beelzebub popped up and did this place.

Extravagant is, I think, the word we all thought when we met ... A lot of money went into that [The Grand Tour's ]. I just thought it would be a good idea to have a bridge from the old to the new and that was a way of saying 'Right, well now look where we are.'

There are many rules for the elderly in the Highway Code. I have one too, and here it is: get a bloody move on.

I'm a horse of a man!