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 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 think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.

I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.