writing a letter when you were young.

David, you were one of those children.

You wrote letters, didn't you?

No, cos I do think there's some children who

just kind of don't bother. But you bothered, didn't you?

Well, I can't remember any other letters than this one,

but I wrote a letter when there was a programme...

When Playschool was on. Do you remember Playschool?

It's a programme here for very young children

and it was, like, set in a fictional house

and then there was a bit, I think, to try and help

children learn to tell the time, where there was a clock.

Just before the story, I think there was a clock

and you'd go down and the thing beneath the clock

would go round and there would be figures on it

and it was quite magical.

And then that stopped going round at one point.

And I was told - and maybe I'm wrong about this -

but I was told it was because of a union dispute at the BBC.

That...that the union involved...

How old are you?

I was... I mean, I think I would have been five, six?

Did you know what a union was?

I don't think so, but I later was told it was a union dispute.

Anyway, I was told it was an argument, an argument between

the people who did the thing going round and round,

and other people, like the people who read the stories, or, you know.

And so I wrote a letter, I think, vacuously suggesting

that they should have some sort of conversation

to resolve their differences. You must have been about eight!

No, I was younger than that. Younger than eight?!

Chelsea wrote a letter when she was five to President Reagan.

What was grinding YOUR gears?

She just popped up one day and said she wanted to write

a letter to President Reagan.

The first thing I learned how to read was the newspaper,

probably not surprising in my house, and I read

an article one day when I was five in the newspaper,

over my Cheerios, that I would secretly put honey on top of

because my mother wouldn't let me have sugar cereal.

She now spoils my children.

That's holding a grudge.

"I'm on this chat show,

"and I'm going to bring up the honey on the cereal thing!"

Did you notice? It wasn't subtle enough!

Next time I'll be more subtle.

And I read that President Reagan was going on a state visit

to what was in West Germany,

and he was going to visit Bitburg Cemetery.

And at Bitburg there were Nazis buried there,

including members of the SS leadership.

I didn't think an American president should be going

to pay his respect on behalf of our country

to a place where Nazis were buried. How old were you?

I was five, but...

I wrote a letter to President Reagan and I said...

Give her the honey!

LAUGHTER Clearly, clearly.

I learned about the Nazis, to be fair, from The Sound Of Music.

OK. So I wrote a letter saying, "Dear Mr President,

"I've seen The Sound Of Music.

"The Nazis were not nice people.

"Please don't go to their cemetery."