I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.

I tend to opt for relaxed family holidays when I can.

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.

The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television and yet they are absolutely invisible.

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.