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

I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.

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

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 had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.

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