It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.