There are perfectly good independent small nations.

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

In the Baboon community, it is not how strong you are that is important, but who you know that counts

If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.