Clive Anderson

Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

Well, I'm happier talking about other people than me.

Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice.

It's true, people don't imagine I'd be particularly woody.

I like to think of myself as a natural gardener.

It is a bit frustrating. Things come and go in television. At the moment they've gone.

I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it's slightly fictional.

My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.