Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn’t, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn’t see a thing but we finally got it done.

Don’t ask me who my favourite monster was because I’m sick of saying Tom Baker.

I draw animals, so I'm useful to my biologist husband because I can chuck out a few illustrations for slides for lectures, and things like that.

No, the maxim is not true, robotic dogs are definitely the thing to work with, K9, aren't you. Probably better than real dogs I dare say.

As for watching it, I never really did as a child because we didn't watch all that much television so I pretended I did at the interview.

Thankfully, we were on the same level as each other. He'd wanted to write me out in a special story halfway through the next series.

One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.

I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who.

I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.

I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.