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

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.

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.

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 has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.

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