You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

Natural history is not about producing fables.

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.

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.

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.

I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?