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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish. Jonathan Dimbleby Read Quote
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. Jonathan Dimbleby Read Quote
I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn’t start to love it until I was 14. Jonathan Dimbleby Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’ve never been a depressive, but I felt quite close to the edge at times. But you never know what’s around the corner. Mercifully, what’s around the corner is joy. Jonathan Dimbleby Read Quote
Food is important to me, but I wouldn’t say that I’m a gourmet. I don’t like tricksy food. Jonathan Dimbleby Read Quote
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. Jonathan Dimbleby Read Quote
