Think Oman, and you think desert. But what we found was mile after mile of barren, spiky rubble, cliffs of jutting sharp rocks, unrelieved by a single piece of vegetation or water. We drove for hours across what felt like the surface of the moon. We saw goats foraging but couldn't work out what they could possibly be eating.

Pudding is my favourite part of any meal and I always have one if I can manage it.

You can't beat a good millefeuille, which is basically a posh custard slice. Yum!

Thailand was a revelation to me; the landscapes, the culture, the food and the people.

My own valuation moment: When I started 'Antiques Roadshow,' John Benjamin looked at my engagement ring, which is Victorian. I sat there as a visitor would and he dated it, talked me through the stone, which is an opal, and which mine it would have been from.

I've been on camels before, lumbering slowly through the desert - not hugely exciting, but I enjoyed the 'Lawrence of Arabia' vibe.

Most visitors to Iceland tend to spend just a few hours in Reykjavik before moving on to the geological wonders beyond. I think they are missing out.

My Duke of Edinburgh interview for his 90th in June 2011 was not one of my successes. I knew what to expect: there were some very uncomfortable moments and put-downs, but I think it made for entertaining viewing.

If I were to say anything to my 18-year-old self, it would be, 'Loosen up. Chill out.'

I collect things called 'samplers' which are Victorian pieces of needlework usually done by children in a workhouse to show that they have a skill which can be used in service, stitching household linen or that kind of thing. I think they're very humble and very beautiful.

If you crave a bit of adventure and the unknown, Singapore is not for you.

Don't ask me the secret to a good long-term relationship - I have no idea! Honestly, I think it's just luck.

I love 'The Master And Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov, which is about repression in Soviet Russia in the 1930s.

Antiques Roadshow' is a public service. It reflects the nation back to itself, as does 'Question Time.'

I haven't done Botox. Although there are a few women on screen who do, and if you don't do it, which I don't, you look pretty rough by comparison.

I conquered my phobia of camping, although I doubt I'll be pitching my tent at a muddy festival any time soon.

I think it's important to rebel a little bit.

There are a million and one things I'd love to get stuck into. Travel, finally getting to spend some time with the family. And I'd love to become a magistrate.

The BBC is a huge part of the nation's cultural life.

Age is definitely an issue for women in TV. There comes a point - especially if you're a woman - when your career just falls off a cliff. I'm not being self-pitying. That's just the way it is.

In my twenties, I was virulently opposed to anyone commenting on my appearance, lest it come at the expense of my ability.

People are more than two-dimensional, and again I think the complexities in life, and in one's makeup, grow as you get older, partly through experience.

I learnt a salutary lesson when I was being hired for the 'Six O'Clock News' and others were being fired, people who I thought were great, like Jill Dando. Letting her go was a big mistake, in my view. But that is probably going to be me one day - I'll read about it in the press and that will be that.

I'd set out to Oman in search of luxury with culture and family-friendly adventure thrown in. And I found 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.

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

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

I think of myself as a journalist first and foremost.

Brexit can tend to be a dialogue of the deaf.

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

I am a simple soul.

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'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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm quite famously frugal.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Muscat itself is a mixture of impersonal modern buildings, shopping malls, mosques, traditional souks, tarmac and sand.

Within less than an hour of arriving in Singapore, it was clear we had arrived in a country where eating has been elevated to the status of a national pastime.