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.

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

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

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

Killing is the payoff of war.

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

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.