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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance. Kate Adie | top
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CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad. Roger Ailes | top
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Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. David Attenborough | top
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It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it. David Attenborough | top
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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, not the Muslim masses. Abu Bakar Bashir | top
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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 who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge. Rory Bremner | top
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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 its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it. Simon Callow | top
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe. Gavyn Davies | top
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It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system. Gavyn Davies | top
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I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two. Jonathan Dimbleby | top
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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. Jonathan Dimbleby | top
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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. Jonathan Dimbleby | top
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The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish. Jonathan Dimbleby | top
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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. Jonathan Dimbleby | top
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I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond. Will Estes | top
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I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before! Adam Faith | top
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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 audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI. Georgie Fame | top
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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. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went. Terry Gilliam | top
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I'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit. Louise Jameson | top
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It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic. John Leeson | top
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Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland. Gyorgy Ligeti | top
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The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better. Ewan McGregor | top
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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 of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene. Andrew Morton | top
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For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas. Joey Ramone | top
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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 studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together. Irvine Welsh | top