I’d got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

Please don’t ask which I enjoy more – acting or hosting – because I love them equally.

I’ve been lucky to have made a number of travel programmes with the BBC, the object being to see places off the beaten track. As a result, I’ve often had a guide who’s been able to show me things that you wouldn’t see with a tour group.

I remember queuing around the block in Sheffield when I was growing up. At that time, going to the cinema was really something special – there was something about the style of the real thing that is immeasurable nicer than multiplexes.

Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling – I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.

George Harrison’s passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive.

I don’t see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.

I’m aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That’s just the way life is.

From my travels around the world I have seen how much damage and pollution is done by the careless disposal of waste. It is also evident that we in the West produce far more and throw away far more than the developing world, almost without thinking.

I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women’s clothing and hang around in bars.