Paterson Joseph

I always thought of Doctor Who as being an older guy - Jon Pertwee was mine - older than me now and somehow slightly dangerous. You need him to get through these situations because of everything he's seen and experienced, but you can never quite trust him or ever really know what he's thinking.

Babylon' has definitely added a degree of sympathy to my opinion of those at the top of the major police forces in the U.K.

I expect most actors would admit to a touch of jealousy, or healthy envy, if they see fellow actors in an excellent piece of work on TV or in the theatre.

You've just got to expand the breadth of imagination. The diversity of ideas is the most important thing.

I wanted to be in a costume drama. Yes, I like them. I enjoy the leap of imagination and the richer-than-modern-language they often contain. I wanted to wear a ruff, or an ornate waistcoat, even a foppish, stylish wig. But not as a tray-toting, background figure. I wanted to be a protagonist.

I think radio's a beautiful thing, because it's all about the imagination, and it's all about the capability of the performer being able to convince you of what and who they are.

Most scripts you need to stretch your imagination just to see what it would look like on screen; 'Neverwhere' was not like that, you picked up the script and immediately you were plunged into it.