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.

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

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

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.

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.

Fundamentally not to waste energy. If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.