As a young man I had a car accident on a foggy night that left the vehicle looking like a squashed box, even though, by some miracle, I walked away unscathed.

This is a lot harder for you than it is for me. If you had gone to bed as many nights as I did in the old days knowing that you had taken so much stuff that could kill you and not knowing if you would wake up, this is not as shocking as you think.

On a flight to Newcastle, when we had terrible storms. The plane dropped quickly and the oxygen masks fell down. We had to land in Manchester.

And actually now having had the advantage of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and being able to look at some of the records of what the apartheid government was doing, the thing that is surprising to me is why so many of us survived. I mean, how is it that they did not assassinate more of us?

To have made a career in TV while being nervous by nature and incapable of doing a piece to camera.

The Weird Weekends theme music: Mini Skirt by Esquivel.

You suddenly get what people are talking about when they talk about being in love.

To everyone who has been out with me and had to deal with my lack of emotional maturity.

There was a period in the early 2000s when I had been doing celebrity profiles and thought I’d lost my way creatively.