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There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we've certainly increased the risk of asthma.

Having a child is arguably the most important thing you do in life.

I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.

I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not just worried about being bullied by classmates, but by teachers.