For me there is no such thing as a normal day and one of the joys of working in journalism for 30 years is that every day is different. So if you have a low boredom threshold like me, that is a good thing.
In the mornings, I am better after I've had my first latte. Throughout the day, I normally carry around a large cup of latte. I don't usually eat in the morning. I might have fruit, or in winter I will eat porridge - it fills you up so you are not snacking during the day. I see my boys off to school at about 7.30am - they are 13 and 16 - and my wife goes to work shortly after. She works as a freelance radio producer at Radio 4. I am normally the last one left [in the house] and it is a question of whether or not to look through the paper. I rarely watch morning television - it gives me indigestion.
If it is a Click Online day, I meet the crew at a location somewhere around central London. But increasingly, Click Online has such an international fan base that we are taking the show around the world. We have taken it to about 15 countries. Without doubt, it is the best IT show in the world. We have a small, focused team with a good mixture of geekiness, a touch of savvy and TV production experience. When I came up with this idea four years ago, one of the first decisions was to tell the technology story through humans, which makes it far more interesting to the viewer. Technology by itself is deadly boring.
We are now available on six airlines and watched by about 100 million viewers and we are also on British national television. It makes me feel proud. Every programme suffers from low budgets; we have survived this and have turned out serious quality television.
One of the proudest shows we did was in a prison in Rio de Janeiro. We went to talk to murderers and rapists about technology. They were giving kids lessons in IT. That day was remarkable, if a little frightening, and there didn't seem to be many guards around. We've also had exclusive interviews with all the top people in technology, such as Nokia, we went to Silicon Valley for a few weeks and I played the Shrek video game with Bill Gates.
We try to make the stories as relevant as possible and try to find the sexiest locations. One of the most dangerous was in Bangalore - rioters were everywhere because a Bollywood film star had been kidnapped. It was strange going there as I had covered India's elections three to four years before for the news. To go back to a country and do a feature and not news was strange.
I started out as a trainee journalist in 1972 at a news agency and covered courts and rugby union. I am a huge Wales fan. You couldn't live in Wales in the 1970s and not be a rugby fan. Then I went into television, where I was a researcher for Nationwide. I've been in television ever since. At ITN, where I also worked, I saw the presenters and thought this is what I wanted to do because they rolled up late and read the news. But then came 24-hour news.