My wife has always supported me in my career, even when there were times when it was more sensible to get a job. It has been her confidence in me that has helped enormously.

I find it so easy to read qualified commentators who are 180 degrees opposed to each other.

I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.

I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.

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

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 wife has always supported me in my career, even when there were times when it was more sensible to get a job. It has been her confidence in me that has helped enormously.