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.

I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.

Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.

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

Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.

How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?

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