“Question Time' had been on my fantasy bucket list for some time. Of al...” — Fiona Bruce Quote

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.

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

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'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.

I think of myself as a journalist first and foremost.

In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.

TV is still a 'push' medium - we are broadcasting into any home or business with basic cable, and depending on what's happening in the world, we have a wider audience, from news junkies to very sporadic viewers. On TV, you want your reporting to be valuable to that entire audience and be relevant.

Nothing will ever feel like winning a Daytona 500. I'm never going to do anything in broadcasting, probably anything in any other professional job that will feel like winning the Daytona 500.

I was the only BBC graduate trainee in 1961 interested in arts broadcasting. I knew I wanted to write, and I had to make a living.