I think having a healthy distrust of authority is a good thing, within certain parameters, obviously.

I don't particularly like being told what to do.

I backpacked around Thailand when I was a university student and have wanted to return ever since.

I've chosen not to go to Sky or ITV because the programmes I've made at the BBC, I want to carry on making.

To me it's always been a no-brainer. Maybe I'm just simplistic about it, but if you believe in equality of opportunity, and want to champion equality of opportunity, that makes you a feminist.

Have I ever presented a programme I don't watch? Well, I've done loads of programmes that no one else watched!

The thing is, if you come on the 'Roadshow' we are not going to humiliate you. The thing about the 'Antiques Roadshow' is not to humiliate people.

I'm quite famously frugal.

I wasn't born into money, and you never know when that money's going to stop coming in.

I'm always disappointed by women who say they prefer working with men. What is that all about? I love working with women, I love the company of women.

I'm not tough. I'm just not a retiring violet when it comes to airing my opinions.

Question Time' had been on my fantasy bucket list for some time. Of all the jobs in broadcasting that's the job I knew I wanted to do.

I'm used to doing a lot of live broadcasting.

I'm all about the story. And the stories I remember tend to be the ones of sorrow, or family history, or revelation of the self.

If you take over a programme from a longstanding incumbent, not everyone's going to like it.

I'm all for a passionate debate, and sometimes things can be heated, which is fine, up to a point. As long as we remember that we are human beings.

I had done debate programmes before and quite often you go into them thinking: 'I might need to build some energy in the room.' 'On Question Time,' the reverse is true. A lot of the time, I am just trying to not have it turn into a slanging match.

I am a simple soul.

The best thing, on 'Question Time,' is when the reality confronts the rhetoric.

Brexit can tend to be a dialogue of the deaf.

I think of myself as a journalist first and foremost.

I still remember watching 'Antiques Roadshow' as a child with my parents, on a Sunday night, sitting in our 1970s living room.

Family is the priority. Your job never loves you back, that's the way I look at it.

Antiques Roadshow' was the first job I had taken since my children were born that took me away from them consistently over a period of time. That was a big adjustment for all of us.