CHRIS TARRANT

A big percentage of the Argentine economy is founded on beef ranching, and they produce steaks the size of dustbin lids. Malbec is the finest red wine in the world, and most restaurants have a wide selection.

I think one of the things about railways, if you get on a train you do find - as you come into Paddington, or wherever - you look into people's windows in a way that you just can't do in a car or any other way.

My father was the marketing director of a biscuit manufacturer in Berkshire. It meant that every Friday he brought home huge bags of broken biscuits that could not be sold.

I once went to La Boca district, where you can watch street performers doing tango, and joined in. But it's very hard to dance in Birkenstocks.

When I was kid I always wanted to be either the captain of the England cricket team or I wanted to be a river bailiff.

I did have an expensive divorce, but I'm now better off than I was. So I don't need to work, I just love it.

I have always thought that what matters most in life is freedom and health, not money.

I first visited Buenos Aires at the end of 2015 while filming the latest series of 'Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways', and I liked it so much I've been back twice with my wife. It's so much nicer than I expected - like a warmer, bigger, wider version of Paris.

I went to university in Birmingham in the 1970s just when the curry revolution was starting in Britain.

Probably the most formative thing was at the age of four my Granddad took me fishing. That actually became a major part of the rest of my life.

Whenever I go abroad, I never return home craving roast beef and Yorkshire pudding or fish and chips. Instead all I really want is a particularly good lamb dopiaza.

I love being British but our railways are shocking. We are so inured to how appalling our railways are. And the idea in almost any other country in the world that leaves on the line would be a problem!

When I was four years old, I found fishing and it has been my base ever since.

I spent hours playing in the garden on my own. I used to play cricket with myself. I never remember thinking, I wish I had a brother or sister. I had a lot of friends, and that was fine.

My own marriages have not been a great success. I've been divorced twice and when I first got divorced it hit my parents very hard.

Before my stroke, I thought I was infallible, because I was physically strong, and could do these endless hours with no effects, whatsoever. But sooner or later, we all hit a wall.

My grandad was the most wonderful man. He was a bit like me. He was basically a country bumpkin but he did well; he became managing director of quite a successful company but all he really wanted to do was to come home, put his disgusting old trampy clothes on and go for walks across the country.

I had a great childhood, I love my Dad to pieces and I just had a great time.

Sometimes, I'd stop the car on the way home after filming 'Millionaire', and fish for a while in the dark.

Some of the parts of Burma, we met people who'd never, ever gone out of their village. And they were brutally poor; incredibly poor. And yet they enjoy their lives.

I used to go salmon fishing with the late Jim Slater, the renowned investor, and he would give me tips. He told me to buy shares in football clubs, so I invested in Manchester United before its shares went through the roof.

So as long as I can do something like this kids show or I can go off and film polar bears or I can do some radio and stuff, and sort of keep other strings in my bow working, then it's good.

My dad was running up and down stairs at 85; my granddad lived until 96, and married a much younger woman at 86.

When I was doing the breakfast show, I used to get up at three o'clock in the morning and go fishing before doing the show.

There's no point in doing an intelligent quiz with me sitting opposite Kerry Katona.