Jane Asher

I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You read more

I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them thinking you'll go home and do the things yourself, which is fun. Some I have done myself later on.

I think one wants lots of different lives.

I think one wants lots of different lives.

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside read more

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

I learned basic cookery from my mom, taught myself cake techniques and then got fed up with my own cakes read more

I learned basic cookery from my mom, taught myself cake techniques and then got fed up with my own cakes not looking as good as the ones in the shops.

Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me-I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the read more

Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me-I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.