I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat.

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

You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.

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

I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else.

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

I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.