Constantly, yes. I have a reputation in Big Finish as quite a stern but fair director but if ever I’m called upon to do acting I am the kind of actor who I hate. [To whom] I would say ‘Can we just stop with the messing around, I mean we’ve got stuff to do.’

I’ll just tell you [something] so you can judge how poorly behaved I am in a studio. In one scene I just had a line which was ‘Yes, commander’ and I had been told that that was the only line I had. As I came into the scene, I was saying ‘I just say yes commander’ and they’d already started running through the scene so I’d said [my line] in a really random place. So I just randomly kept saying ‘Yes commander’ all the way through the scene, which no one found amusing, they just found it very irritating. And in retrospect I’d like to apologise to all concerned.