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.

No matter how beautiful a spot I find myself in, if the food ain't up to much, I won't enjoy myself.

As an army marches on its stomach, I vacation on mine. And for that reason, among others, I found myself in holiday heaven in Singapore.

Well, not everyone wants to lead the kind of life I lead.

If you're in people's living-rooms, via the television, it's what happens. You're more noticeable. But I'm not aware that anyone has said I pay a lower rate of tax. I don't. I pay my full share of tax, believe you me.

I don't know anything about antiques. I do buy them now, but I have a little knowledge, and great enthusiasm.

I was born in Singapore, but I left at four so memories are hazy.

My father was MD of Unilever, so we followed him around the world.

With two older brothers, I was a tomboy in one sense, but on the other hand I really loved dolls. My brothers weren't very happy when I nicked their Action Men to play with my dolls and they were appalled when I made them kiss my Barbies.

Of course, I'd love to be regarded as a voice of authority.

I've worked hard, but I've been lucky too.

When I started in news on the 'Six O'Clock,' I was 36 and felt very inexperienced.

The audience is an absolutely critical part of 'Question Time' and selecting that audience is a big and very important job every week. What we need to do every week without fail is make the audience politically representative of the picture across the nation.

The standards by which a woman's appearance is judged on the news are different to men, there's no question about that. Our clothes are different, for starters, they're much more varied, they're commented upon, there's no question about that. But do you have to be really good-looking? I don't think that's true.

Really, I've been at the BBC too long and have spent too much time out on the road to worry about being judged as a clothes horse.

Outside certain parameters, I don't consider myself that serious a person.

I was the first person in my family to go to university so it was quite a big deal for us.

I'm astonished at the freedom with which a depressingly large number of men feel they can just say what they want and write the most hideously misogynistic stuff about women.

My kids once said, 'What would you do if you hadn't got us?' I replied, 'I'd be more successful and I'd have more friends, but I wouldn't be as happy.'

There is a thing about women, in particular, being endlessly grateful for the opportunities in life, rather than saying, 'I'm here because I'm good.'

I saw 'The Theory of Everything,' which I loved, but I'm afraid I hardly ever get to go to the cinema.

I was at a film premiere that George Clooney was attending and I was very star-struck. We weren't having a long conversation or anything, but I was definitely slightly in awe of him.

This is going to make me sound 100 years old, but I really loved David Cassidy in 'The Partridge Family.'

I really like sitting down with my daughter to watch programmes like 'Call the Midwife,' '24 hours in A&E,' 'One Born Every Minute' and 'Our Girl.' It's just the two of us, which is really nice.

On 'Question Time,' I've noticed great anger from the audience. When we discuss Brexit, emotions range from white-hot fury to cold, grey apathy. As soon as we move off Brexit, debate is much more nuanced and considered.

After 'Question Time,' I find my mind is racing. So I try to watch something that's a million miles away from all that, like 'Poldark' or 'Call the Midwife' or 'Derry Girls.'