Beginning Quote by Jimmy Page

There's not much radio in the UK, really. In America, you're in a car, factory, wherever, and you turn the dial on the radio,…

— Nick Hodgson

Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

— David Bowie

I wonder if this reason is partly geographical, that talk radio is so much more successful in North America than in Britain? People who…

— John Gimlette

It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a…

— David Attenborough

Perhaps because I never left England and went to America - I think the public sort of appreciated that. I visited and I did…

— Vera Lynn

Part of me misses the days when we have four channels in England and we were all talking about everything all the time.

— Saffron Burrows

I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

There's a real culture of watching television in Britain that there isn't in other countries. Because we have the BBC, which everyone watches, there's…

— Michaela Strachan

Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop…

— Michael Caine

It used to be that a lot of the ranking tournaments were in Britain so British players could just drive an hour up the…

— Neil Robertson

The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.

— Andrew Davies

Radio is very popular [in Britain], but it doesn't connect us in the same way. It seems to have this community function.

— John Gimlette