I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.

One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.

My best friend is my husband.

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

The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.

Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.

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.