I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.

I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: "However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you."

Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.

People will say what they want to say, in the way they want to.

Lord Castlerosse was taken to task by Nancy Astor over the size of his stomach. 'What would you say if that was on a woman?' she asked, pointedly. 'Half an hour ago it was,' he replied.

I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.

My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.