Chris Budd

And if they said that, I would have said, well, actually my best O-level, that's how far back I go, the only A I got was English language.

I like writing stories.

So I could have been a journalist.

I could have done all sorts of things.

And it was only when I realised all of this in my early 40s, when I was getting quite depressed and I didn't know why, that I realised it was because I wasn't writing.

I've since written three novels and the depression went fairly soon after I started doing that.

And it was all because the focus was, what are you good at?

And for my dad, bless him, it was, how can you make money and have a stable life?

What kind of novels?

Oh, it's a long story.

No, I mean, that's one of my favourite jokes.

So they're kind of psychological, kind of fun things, yeah.

I'll tell you one of them, which actually the second one didn't do so well because I don't think I realised it, but I love the idea as a solicitor who's a bit grumpy and a guy in a flash car overtakes him and flips him the finger as he goes past.

And he comes across him a mile later than his country lane and the guy in the fancy car, expensive car has crashed.

He gets out, the sister, he goes over, the guy's alive, so he helps him out of the car, brings him back to his car, opens the boot, puts him in the boot, takes him then back to his house where he takes him up into his attic, ties him up and tortures him to make him a nicer person.

I hope it's not based on a true story.

We'll see.

I'm not getting any lifts from you anytime soon.

I love the idea of the subtitles.

How far would you go to make the world a nicer place?