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.
At home in Devon, my wife Jessica does a huge proportion of the cooking - I do the basics. My timing is extremely good, particularly when it comes to vegetables, perhaps because in my work, timing is everything. I know exactly what fits into a minute when broadcasting, and I apply the same to carrots.
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.
The long, forensic interview really matters.
I was a reluctant convert, and I am by no means a zealot. But the evidence is compelling: to write off wind-power is either ill-informed or dishonest.
Ethiopia is engraved on my heart. I first went in 1973 because I heard of a terrible famine. They were denying it even as we got the film out. The coverage destroyed the emperor's credibility.
For a few months when I was about 17, I smoked a small cigar because I thought it looked cool and it would get me the girls. It didn't.
The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.
I don't love the media. I'm part of it, but you can't love a porcupine.
That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.
Until I was 21, I wasn't going into the media. I was a professional show jumper; I was going to have a farm... Then my father died, and it changed my life. I realised I had to have a go at being a journalist to see if I could cut the mustard.
I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.
You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.
I am now certain that we have no alternative but to reduce urgently the levels of carbon that we are still pumping into the atmosphere as though tomorrow simply didn't matter. If we don't act collectively and individually, our children and their children will reap a whirlwind which will obliterate their civilisation.
Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.
Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong.
I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat.
The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.
I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.
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.
