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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last weeks winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong.