I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.

I was producing a series about Sir Winston Churchill, about which I was extremely proud, and earning a lot of money as a producer.

The strange thing about the English character is that they understate everything. It's considered bad form to comment on the food, money, romance, any of those things. So you underplay it.

Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

And there was a very famous man called Michael Powell, who probably is the greatest director all round, except possibly a couple of men.

I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.

The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.