I think I'd concentrate on young women - particularly girls at school - and I would try and build into school curriculums much more education about relationships and how girls (and boys) can handle them: stuff about consent and that sort of thing.

When you get to know someone, you find there's something nasty in their woodshed.

I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.

My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and posted to Libya, she convinced some general to let her go with him. I don't know how she managed it.

You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.

Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.

Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.