The BBC is a brilliant, infuriating, delightful cornerstone of our culture but it drives me round the twist. I will never forgive… — Alexander Armstrong Best Copy Share Image
Our main house is in the country, all our stuff is in the country, and that's home, though the boys, who are… — Alexander Armstrong Country Copy Share Image
I have never actually abandoned singing. I have sung at lots of friends' weddings and family events to keep up my classical… — Alexander Armstrong Family Copy Share Image
I suppose I am Scottish - Armstrong. They were thugs, basically, reivers - and I bet they were ravers, too. They lived… — Alexander Armstrong Crown Copy Share Image
Well I am breaking the omerta and telling the world about how the Arctic is surprisingly full of bustling conurbations and comfy… — Alexander Armstrong Arctic Copy Share Image
I would slap a tax on plastic to encourage people to use more biodegradable things. I would also like teachers, vicars and… — Alexander Armstrong Biodegradable Copy Share Image
There was a period in the Nineties when the BBC wanted to act as if it was a trendy Soho independent. They… — Alexander Armstrong Esprit de corps Copy Share Image
I was a chorister at St Mary's Music School, from the ages of 11 to 13, after prep school and before I… — Alexander Armstrong City Copy Share Image
What I loved about Radio 3 back in the olden days, when it didn't give a toss about the youth, were the… — Alexander Armstrong Great Copy Share Image
I have four boys aged 10 and under. Fatherhood is lovely but there is this slightly shocking moment when you realise it… — Alexander Armstrong Boys Copy Share Image
Alpacas are much more biddable creatures. Llamas are horrible. As a species, it's probably for the best that they're wary of us.… — Alexander Armstrong Animal Copy Share Image
There are plenty of reasons for disliking people, but this tribal aversion to anyone with a posh voice is very boring. — Alexander Armstrong Boring Copy Share Image
I'd take lying by the pool doing nothing over aimlessly wandering the streets clutching a guidebook. — Alexander Armstrong Lying Copy Share Image
I have a horrible capacity to be unctuous to people I want to impress. — Alexander Armstrong Capacity Copy Share Image
I've been to Venice, Rome, and Dubrovnik, but none of them come close to Edinburgh. — Alexander Armstrong Close Copy Share Image
I ended up at Durham School, which was lovely, then Trinity College Cambridge. — Alexander Armstrong Cambridge Copy Share Image
Why should your background be held against you? It is so short-sighted. — Alexander Armstrong Against Copy Share Image
I would love to think I'd inherited my father's patience. He's a man who achieves a great deal through gentleness. — Alexander Armstrong Father Copy Share Image
I'm staggered when I look back at how, when I got to Cambridge, I didn't know anything of the world. — Alexander Armstrong Anything Copy Share Image
Durham is the most beautiful place. Whenever I'm on a train going north I have to stand, nose pressed to the window,… — Alexander Armstrong Beautiful Copy Share Image
I suspect that you, like I once did, are picturing the Arctic as one endless Pingu landscape of flat ice, broken only… — Alexander Armstrong Arctic Copy Share Image
Danger Mouse' is James Bond essentially. A rodent James Bond. Oh and slightly Batman too I suppose. And let's chuck in a… — Alexander Armstrong Batman Copy Share Image
I was quite an odd child. We grew up in the middle of nowhere in Northumberland - it was lovely, idyllic, but… — Alexander Armstrong Children Copy Share Image
I'm not very religious, but having reached middle age I rather enjoy the quiet and the contemplation of spending an hour in… — Alexander Armstrong Age Copy Share Image
There's this weird thing going on where people think they've worked you out as a certain type of person, but probably better… — Alexander Armstrong Better Copy Share Image
I'd love a rule to be introduced that you can only ring up and complain about a programme if you can prove… — Alexander Armstrong Complain Copy Share Image
Countdown came about at a time when we'd just had our first baby, and, if I'm entirely honest, it looked like an… — Alexander Armstrong Baby Copy Share Image
Sherlock' is brilliant television. It has completely reinvented British drama, and upped the stakes for home-grown shows. — Alexander Armstrong Brilliant Copy Share Image
I don't know about scared, but 'Chernobyl' definitely made me deeply uncomfortable. Almost addictively uncomfortable: don't know what that says about me.… — Alexander Armstrong About Copy Share Image
I always think that in nearly every instance things that turn ugly, they almost invariably do so because of a misunderstanding, or… — Alexander Armstrong Communication Copy Share Image
The problem is you have people who are keenly aware of what their time span is. Governments work towards the next election;… — Alexander Armstrong Different people Copy Share Image
