You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members.

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.

I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group.

I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.

I went through bits of the 60s and thought myself a bit of a hippy.

I was having my teens in my 30s.

I'm interested in politics, what's going on in the world, how people behave and how your life is often in the hands of other people.