Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.

My nickname is Bondy. But not because of the Bond films - it was my surname a long time before I did those.

It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.

I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.

Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.

Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on TV.

I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.