One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.

From my travels around the world I have seen how much damage and pollution is done by the careless disposal of waste. It is also evident that we in the West produce far more and throw away far more than the developing world, almost without thinking

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe.

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.

There is nothing better than playing a scene with John Cleese or Maggie Smith. It's electric. But I don't think I'm the sort of person who needs to have an outer ego in order to produce something. I realised that through the travel programmes.