Remember what I done for you here today,' he shouted and passed out.

It was huge fun to do and, as an added bonus, it seems to have stood the test of time. At the time, we were just making a show we enjoyed doing and we had no idea how big it was going to be, or even whether we were going to get another series. It's only in retrospect that you can see whether things were important and have a lasting value.

I’m different,” said the Kid. “My gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half crazy.

They wanted to revive interest in the whole literary angle of James Bond, to remind the world that, actually, Bond started in books, not the movies. So they approached a number of different writers and, for some reason, decided to go with me, which is nice. Maybe everyone else told them to bugger off.

I always knew we had a lot of fight in us.

No, no, ... We'll fight this to the end.