It’s a totally socially destructive job working in television. The hours are horrendous. You work weekends, early mornings, late nights, Christmas and public holidays. Family life was very much disrupted. But we were paid highly for doing it, and were very unionised. So while I was working horrendous hours – 14-hour or 16-hour days – they always tried to keep us to a 40-hour week. Which meant that quite often we would only work on three days a week. That’s when I fostered my love of self-sufficiency, the natural world, animals and running a small holding. I started training sheepdogs ...