I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.

It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it.

I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell.

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.