Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes

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• 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…
• I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this…
• The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.
• The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.
• 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…
• You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.
• While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of…
• I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.
• Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last weeks winner of Have I Got News For You-but I…
• I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.
• Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.
• I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.
• 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 and…
• It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living…
• 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…
• I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat.
• Travelling to make television programmes means I have some unusual food memories. In Pasto, Colombia, I was taken to a restaurant where I chose my…
• At home in Devon, my wife Jessica does a huge proportion of the cooking - I do the basics. My timing is extremely good, particularly…
• My two great treats in life are baked beans and vanilla ice-cream.
• I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else.

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