British - Writer | July 31, 1944 -
The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.
Jonathan Dimbleby
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That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.
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I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.
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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.
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I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.
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I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for.
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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.
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The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.
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The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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