Not as bad as I thought it was going to be. I really did worry.

It’s just because I’ve been spoilt. I’ve had four years of doing Big Finish now, where the buck stops with me. I make the decisions about the scripts, I make the decisions about who’s writing, what they’re writing, whether I like it [and whether] I get them to change it. Then I worry about the director. I commission a director if I don’t do it myself, there’s all the casting, and I see it all through post production. Everything stops with me.

This is the first time I’ve had to go "Ooh, I’ve got to let go of this and let somebody else have a larger percentage of interest in it than I’ve got in it". So I worried, not that I thought that I was going to get interfered with by BBCi, but more that my ego, which is fairly large at the best of times, would have a severe problem allowing someone else to chip in, particularly on a story that I’d written.

I found it an absolute doddle as a result, it couldn’t have gone better. Working with James [Goss] and with Kim [Plowright] has been a joy and I look forward to doing it again. Hee hee, let’s do it again. It’s been an experiment but it’s one I think that’s paid off. I’m very pleased with it.