Bbc Quotes
122 quotes by 96 authors
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After the war, I went to the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, a suburb of Reading. It was a big aerial system to listen to…
— Michael Bond
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For the BBC and others, a free website is an obvious and relatively cheap addendum to their main purpose of streaming news and entertainment on…
— Lionel Barber
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When I was a young kid, the best stuff on television was always the BBC period dramas - it was what we sat down as…
— Neil Jackson
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I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse,…
— Vince Clarke
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I was obsessed with George Orwell for years. I remember going to the town library and having to put in interlibrary loan requests to get…
— Jill Lepore
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In my opinion, the BBC are one of the best producers of drama in the world, and it made me incredibly happy to get the…
— Luke Pasqualino
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The establishment is a dirty, dangerous beast, and the BBC is a mouthpiece for that.
— Ken Stott
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I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out…
— Andrew Morton
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The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an…
— Georgie Fame
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We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people…
— Rory Bremner
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The BBC can be infuriating at times but I love it with a passion.
— John Sweeney
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The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.
— Andrew Davies
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The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.
— Douglas Kennedy
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The BBC is very good at period drama - world-famous for getting the details right.
— Lynne Reid Banks
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I like BBC news; I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot.
— Brian Grazer
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Fantastic answer by a philosopher to a question asked at the BBC...Define Birthday?? Answer:The only day in your life,when u cried and your mother was…
— Ur My Destiny
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We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group.…
— Terry Gilliam
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BBC shirt wittab fresh pair of jeans (Wow).
— Bow Wow
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A comedic look at the TV License, you stop paying it and you get clobbered, you pay the fine but continue to not pay the…
— Sparki Dee
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I didn't know whether The Office was going to make it past six episodes, let alone have an effect on anybody's career. We were definitely…
— Steve Carell
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