Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.

Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life.

I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.