Partridge's Alan and Saxondale

I think a good character is someone you care about, and I've sort of earned the place with probably Alan. The thing that makes them last for people is that people have affection for them as well as finding them pompous or ridiculous or reprehensible. And because you're so good along with the Gibbons Brothers who write with you now doing Partridge at nailing little teeny-weeny things - which very often are the same things that the viewer is into. You talk about those air crash shows. I like stuff like that too. A lot of Partridge stuff that comes up, I think, yeah, I'm into that too. There's chinks of self-d