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

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

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.

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

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