I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

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

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.

I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life.

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.

BBC Radio is not so much an art or industry as it is a way of life . . . a mirror that reflects . . . the eccentricities, the looniness that make Britons slightly different from other humans.