Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio.

After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.

What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.

The BBC is a perfect example of uncontrolled growth, [occupying] old churches and manor houses, the old Langham Hotel where Sherlock Holmes once met Moriarty and where this correspondent once shared an office with an 8-foot bathtub.

BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.