The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me. Jonathan Dimbleby More Quotes by Jonathan Dimbleby More Quotes From Jonathan Dimbleby I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it. Jonathan Dimbleby stomach flying hate I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else. Jonathan Dimbleby adore I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat. Jonathan Dimbleby cutting battle believe 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 about issues from Africa to terrorism. Jonathan Dimbleby talking two years 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 rooms night after night. Jonathan Dimbleby night looks thinking 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 many thousands of the letters. Jonathan Dimbleby archives two years I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly. Jonathan Dimbleby range claims enough Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words. Jonathan Dimbleby andrew names long I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't. Jonathan Dimbleby rivals rejoice facts 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 suppose you might be wrong. Jonathan Dimbleby issues news might I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two. Jonathan Dimbleby loss two art 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 Wales. Jonathan Dimbleby wales errors writing You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place. Jonathan Dimbleby umpires certain damn 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 the market. Jonathan Dimbleby vision challenges culture The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish. Jonathan Dimbleby rubbish produce wonderful 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 biography is based. Jonathan Dimbleby source biographies expectations 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 into catastrophe. We have the capacity to forsee and forestall, and I believe we will find the will to act Jonathan Dimbleby future believe hands I have a great deal of joy in my life, and I'm very fortunate. That combination makes you aware of just how wonderful life can be on the one hand and how dreadful it can be for people on the other. You can't be happy in isolation. Jonathan Dimbleby be-happy my-life you life 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 meat for the evening from a cage of white rats. It tasted perfectly good - like rabbit. Jonathan Dimbleby good evening food memories My two great treats in life are baked beans and vanilla ice-cream. Jonathan Dimbleby great vanilla life two
