Fiona Bruce

I saw 'The Theory of Everything,' which I loved, but I'm afraid I hardly ever get to go to the cinema.

The one good thing about jet lag when you fly to the United States is that you wake up so madly early, you can beat everyone else to the big tourist attractions and miss the queues.

Coming to Rajasthan had been my idea, my dream. In the weeks before we arrived, I had tried and failed on numerous occasions to enthuse my family with the joys of travel in India; reading bits from the guidebooks, telling the children about the history of the Mughals, insisting to my daughter that she really would enjoy curry if it was in India.

The atmosphere in the newsroom could be pretty poisonous. When I arrived, the people who worked on the 'Six' were sitting there slagging off what had gone out on the 'One.' I thought: 'What is this place? And what are you saying about me?'

I learnt a salutary lesson when I was being hired for the 'Six O'Clock News' and others were being fired, people who I thought were great, like Jill Dando. Letting her go was a big mistake, in my view. But that is probably going to be me one day - I'll read about it in the press and that will be that.

I remember my dad saying to me, 'But Fiona don't you want to go and do the dramatic society. You can still do your women's groups as well.' And I said, 'Dad, feminism is a way of life! It's not a hobby!'

I don't go into the newsroom and people start salivating. I can't think of anything further from the truth.

After 'Question Time,' I find my mind is racing. So I try to watch something that's a million miles away from all that, like 'Poldark' or 'Call the Midwife' or 'Derry Girls.'

On 'Question Time,' I've noticed great anger from the audience. When we discuss Brexit, emotions range from white-hot fury to cold, grey apathy. As soon as we move off Brexit, debate is much more nuanced and considered.

Brexit can tend to be a dialogue of the deaf.

I really like sitting down with my daughter to watch programmes like 'Call the Midwife,' '24 hours in A&E,' 'One Born Every Minute' and 'Our Girl.' It's just the two of us, which is really nice.

This is going to make me sound 100 years old, but I really loved David Cassidy in 'The Partridge Family.'

I was at a film premiere that George Clooney was attending and I was very star-struck. We weren't having a long conversation or anything, but I was definitely slightly in awe of him.

I think the BBC has come a long way in equal pay. I think it's come the furthest of all in the representation of women on screen.

There is a thing about women, in particular, being endlessly grateful for the opportunities in life, rather than saying, 'I'm here because I'm good.'

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 was the first person in my family to go to university so it was quite a big deal for us.

Outside certain parameters, I don't consider myself that serious a person.

The standards by which a woman's appearance is judged on the news are different to men, there's no question about that. Our clothes are different, for starters, they're much more varied, they're commented upon, there's no question about that. But do you have to be really good-looking? I don't think that's true.

The audience is an absolutely critical part of 'Question Time' and selecting that audience is a big and very important job every week. What we need to do every week without fail is make the audience politically representative of the picture across the nation.

I've worked hard, but I've been lucky too.

Of course, I'd love to be regarded as a voice of authority.

If you're in people's living-rooms, via the television, it's what happens. You're more noticeable. But I'm not aware that anyone has said I pay a lower rate of tax. I don't. I pay my full share of tax, believe you me.

Well, not everyone wants to lead the kind of life I lead.

If you crave a bit of adventure and the unknown, Singapore is not for you.

The BBC is a huge part of the nation's cultural life.

If I want to watch things I'm on, I end up watching on my own.

Don't ask me the secret to a good long-term relationship - I have no idea! Honestly, I think it's just luck.

When I started presenting I'd get invited to red carpet events and I went to a few premieres. But pretty soon I thought, 'Life's too short.'

If you work and you want to see your children, something's got to give and for me, it's my social life.

When both my parents were unwell I was in that situation that will be very familiar to many women. I had young children in one part of the country, and elderly unwell parents in another. I was in a constant state of guilt. Was I there enough for my mother? Was I there enough for my children?

I met someone with a title on my first day, Baronet von Something, and I thought: 'Look at me, I've really grafted. Who are these people who have just waltzed into Oxford? I don't want to hang out with those people. They're nothing like me.'

They're all good-looking men - I can't think of a male presenter who isn't a good-looking bloke - but, you know, they're not judged by their suits and ties.

My parents' set-up was very traditional, whereas that's not the life I've chosen to lead.

My mum, who died in 2011, was the most loving mother you could ask for. She was very compassionate, always a good listener, and her love was a constant throughout my life. She was very sympathetic, kind and understanding and I think these values can be underrated.

I talk about feminism being a spectrum.

People are more than two-dimensional, and again I think the complexities in life, and in one's makeup, grow as you get older, partly through experience.

I couldn't imagine life without Radio 4.

As an army marches on its stomach, I vacation on mine. And for that reason, among others, I found myself in holiday heaven in Singapore.

I'm very fortunate in the things I've done and I've worked really hard at them. It's always ultimately up to the viewers whether they like it or not.

I've been a journalist for too long to stop calling myself a journalist, and also when I'm doing 'Fake or Fortune?' I'm going through a rigorous investigation.

You don't present a show like 'Crimewatch' without developing a real respect for the justice system in this country.

There are a million and one things I'd love to get stuck into. Travel, finally getting to spend some time with the family. And I'd love to become a magistrate.

I wouldn't consider cosmetic surgery.

I love 'The Master And Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov, which is about repression in Soviet Russia in the 1930s.

Pudding is my favourite part of any meal and I always have one if I can manage it.

My father John taught me about hard work and the importance of manners.

I love 'Chicago,' I love the musical and the movie and I thought Catherine Zeta-Jones was amazing.

I have a few grey hairs. I dye them. I don't let them show when I'm reading the news.

There's not much opportunity to learn to read the news. By and large, you either can or you can't do it pretty much straight away.