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.

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.

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

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

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