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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.

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I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat.

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The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.

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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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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: July 31st, 1944

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