When I thought maybe I've just got a few weeks, I thought God this is what they mean by the reckoning. I've got to sort all this stuff out in days. Is it possible to sort out all those things in your past that you'd prefer not to have done? ... But actually by going through the process we've gone through, I think we have. And it's a real blessing to have this time do that.

I’d drink less alcohol in the 90s.

My mum died in her early 70s, and for the last six or seven years of her life she couldn’t move, didn’t speak. By the time our children were born, she was too ill to communicate. I haven’t many regrets in life, but I do regret that they never got to know her, even though she was still alive for a few years. They couldn’t see her warmth, her spirit, her courage.

I would really love to know my parents as an adult. I lost my dad when I was 14 and my mum when I was 20.

Warmth and security.

At the time, not landing the role of Lance-Corporal Jones in Dad’s Army, but it all worked out fine in the long run.

Diving in the Virgin Islands. I lost sight of the boat and had to swim to a tiny, deserted island. After a great deal of time, the rescue boat saw me waving for my life on the rocks.

Scrabbling about under dusty floorboards as an electrician in my early 20s.

Dreaming that I am about to go on stage or set but haven’t got the right script.