Bbc Quotes
122 quotes by 96 authors
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My wife and I have just returned from Belgium where, courtesy of the hotel TV, we acquired a new perspective on the Iraq war. The…
— David Walker
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They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders,…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It…
— George Orwell
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I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.
— Alexei Sayle
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The BBC has tended over the years to be broadly liberal as opposed to broadly conservative for all sorts of perfectly understandable reasons. The sort…
— John Humphrys
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Our blessed radio. It gives us eyes and ears out into the world. We listen to the German station only for good music. And we…
— Anne Frank
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The BBC is a victim of its own independence.
— Graham Norton
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When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be,…
— Michael Apted
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It's only because you can now watch cheerfully biased Fox News that you begin to realize how cheerlessly biased CNN really is - and always…
— Andrew Sullivan
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I always got very excited about the Masters as a kid. I could hardly wait until the Wednesday when you'd get the BBC's preview. And…
— Rory McIlroy
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One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.
— David Oyelowo
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I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the…
— Irvine Welsh
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There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so…
— Julie Walters
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The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive,…
— Norman Tebbit
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It's very different doing a food show in America and doing one in Britain. I did a 20-part series for the BBC series called 'Eating…
— Toby Young
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When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask…
— Simon Callow
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As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great…
— Frank Delaney
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For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to…
— Frank Delaney
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As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think…
— Gavyn Davies
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The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific…
— Gavyn Davies
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