What is your first memory of watching TV? The Sooty Show was my favourite as a kid. I watched it on repeat for as long as I can remember. 

You’re a prime-time chat-show host: what’s your ideal line-up of guests? I love icons such as Meryl Streep and Judi Dench, and fabulous but real characters like Olivia Colman and Adele.  

Which sitcom have you laughed at the most? I adore Two Doors Down. I think it should be the citizenship test for people to move to Scotland. It’s so funny, and although set on the other side of the world to where I grew up it reminds me of my family. 

When was the last time you felt scared while watching TV? I devour true-crime podcasts. In fact, I fall asleep to them. So when it comes to scary TV, I think Love Island might be the most terrifying of them all. 

What’s the best TV theme tune ever? It’s hard to go past Gilligan’s Island. I loved humming the theme tune as a kid, watching reruns.

Which programme that’s no longer on screen would you love to see return? I love Schitt’s Creek. It’s such a funny show, with the most absurd characters. I often go back to watch it again and again. 

What was the last show you binge-watched? Slow Horses. I was a couple of years late to the party and boy was I happy to be able to watch so many episodes back-to-back. It’s so brilliant and the acting is superb. Same for Only Murders In The Building. I finally get the hype.

Who is your all-time favourite fictional TV character? I love Alf Stewart from Home And Away; it’s like looking into my future. I’ll be hanging at the diner all day, doing my bit for the community and calling all the young kids ‘flaming galahs’. 

Designing The Hebrides, presented by Banjo Beale, is on BBC Scotland every Monday, and BBC Two every Tuesday with episodes available on BBC iPlayer; main picture: Shelley Richmond.