The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one.
From Mariella Frostrup
I used to routinely turn down things that might compound the impression that I was some kind of vacuous blonde. But now, when I look back, I think I should have done them because I would be very rich - being taken seriously isn't all it's cracked up to be.
I have a producer friend who despairs that I come across as rather frosty and never show the real me, and she might have a point.
First, I was a glacial blonde doing music programmes. Then I was the film kind of sexy bird late at night. It was frustrating like I guess it's frustrating for everyone who is not fully employing their talents.
When a father of a daughter dies, you elevate them. And you sort of deify them.
I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.
Television executives only commission something that somebody else has already commissioned that's doing well on another station - they're afraid of expecting an audience to concentrate for longer than three minutes on any particular item.
My parents split up, and a lot of things going on in the outside world made me want to immerse myself in an alternative world.
If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts in there.
It's an absolute disgrace that there isn't a books programme on the BBC.
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