I did quite a lot on radio at one moment. I was Question Master for My Word and My Word was a very, very popular programme with Frank Muir and Denis Norden, you know. It was a very, very popular programme here, but it was hugely popular in America and whenever I used to... subsequently, went on a lecture tour to America and was introduced, they always said, 'And for five years he was the chairman of My Word.' And people were far more impressed by that than my having written a dozen books or anything like that. My Word was the thing, and then all the questions afterwards would always be about My Word, not about my lecture at all.

And it was great fun. I got a bit bored with it by the end, simply because all my words were written down, really. Everybody else was allowed to improvise, but I would see actually written on the script, 'Oh, well done, Frank, that was very amusing', you know, which I was perfectly capable, actually, of improvising for myself. And the result of that was that I did start improvising for myself and I think I possibly went rather too far. And I did it for four years, I think, but then I was sacked. Very, very nice handwritten letter from the director saying, 'Thank you so much, you've been lovely, but we think the time had come to make a change.' So, Antonia Fraser, who used to have been, who used to be one of the members of the quiz, she took over the chair from me.