People looking at what I do from the outside would think it was a secure world I live in, but it isn't. Just because you had a series last year, doesn't mean you will have one next. But I am quite happy with that.

I'm wary of the new contactless ways of paying. The idea of paying with your phone is a little worrying: I have lost more than one over the years.

I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.

Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter.

It took me a while to get established - success didn't happen overnight.

After I graduated from the University of Glasgow, I was a self-employed archaeologist going from dig to dig around Scotland, and it was not well-paid. I was an excavator, not a lecturer as well, so paying rent on a flat was tricky. In the end I decided to retrain as a journalist as I couldn't see a future in it.

My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.