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.

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

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

When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.

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.

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.