I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14. — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
I don't love the media. I'm part of it, but you can't love a porcupine. — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
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… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
Travelling to make television programmes means I have some unusual food memories. In Pasto, Colombia, I was taken to a restaurant where I chose… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
Rolling my trousers down to expose the upper part of my buttocks and having a knife pressed up and down my spine by a… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
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… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
My only real claim to fame is that I was southern England show-jumping champion in 1966. The day after my father died, 'Horse &… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
My two great treats in life are baked beans and vanilla ice-cream. — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't. — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it. — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish. — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
