I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.

I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.

I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the 80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain.

You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.

Filming is always a challenge because I'm not used to it. But I approach it head-on. I'm not technically brilliant, but it's the spirit that counts.