It is almost impossible to say the name of Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawat without adding 'give a dog a bone'

I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!

I'm much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling.

That business aspect of the media, that Charlotte Street world, the advertising and programme executives, it leaves me absolutely cold. I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.