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

I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism.

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

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

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

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

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.