Michael Aspel quotes:

It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.

It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand.

I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously.

I'm more nervous about doing this than anything I've ever done before, because it is so prestigious.

Red squirrels... you don't see many of them since they became extinct.

You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they've got - so often, they have no idea.

What I will learn over the years will be of benefit and interest to me personally but, as far as the program is concerned, I'm the mouthpiece of the viewers as well.

An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past.