People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.

I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.

I've been lucky to have made a number of travel programmes with the BBC, the object being to see places off the beaten track. As a result, I've often had a guide who's been able to show me things that you wouldn't see with a tour group.

There are many ways of seeing the world. You can hang upside down from a meteor, volunteer to be the fourth stage of a three-stage rocket, or simply get in a balloon and keep going. But if it's sheer, unadulterated discomfort you're looking for, just stay on land.

Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life