In Cyprus between 1994 and 1999. I was baking out there, the weather was fantastic, it was a great place to be and I met my wife Alex.

I was happiest in every aspect of my life in the 1990s, when I was married to Paddy [King, a management consultant] and we had the two children and my mum lived with us, and Countdown was the biggest show on Channel 4.

When my first child was born – something I thought would never happen.

Pittsford, New York, writing my first book when our kids were small, riding my bike to work because we only had one car…that feeling of being needed and loved and vitally involved in something artistic that I didn’t fully understand, everything still lying ahead of us.

“You’ll never walk again.” This was when I was eight or nine and recovering from viral encephalitis.

Interrupting or talking over people. As a stammerer, I am particularly alert to this.

Darnella Frazier, the teenager who filmed George Floyd’s murder. It took astonishing courage to stand on the pavement in front of those policemen, and we all owe her so much.

Last week, while I was wet-wrapping my child’s chronic eczema.

How long have you got? I have written a memoir and the subtitle is Seventeen Brushes with Death.

I started stammering badly the first time I was on live radio, on Woman’s Hour on Radio 4. When I think about it now it brings me out in a cold sweat.