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.

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

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

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 hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it.

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

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.