It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night.

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.

Ever more people are alert to the challenge of global poverty and global warming. We know that solutions are at hand. We will not sleepwalk into catastrophe. We have the capacity to forsee and forestall, and I believe we will find the will to act

The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market.

Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.

The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.