Bbc Quotes

People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices.
Andrew Davies

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

May, Problem, Lies

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

Chance, Everybody, Television

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.
Gyorgy Ligeti

Book, Said, Once

It's very different doing a food show in America and doing one in Britain. I did a 20-part series for the BBC series called 'Eating With the Enemy.' The budget for all 20 episodes was probably the budget for a single episode of 'Top Chef.' It's the difference between making a home movie in your backyard and going to Hollywood.
Toby Young

Home, Food, Enemy

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

Used, Group, Days

I think with Sky and BBC Three and Channel 4, there are some great television platforms, and the stand-up movement in this country is phenomenal. It's like rock n' roll here. Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.
Brendan Coyle

Funny, Great, Rock

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

Knowledge, Rather, Used

That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County.' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with.
Michelle Forbes

Smart, American, Derivative

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

Old, Wonderful, Load

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

Enough, Making, Claim

I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.
Jonathan Dimbleby

Two, Loss, Arts

The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.
Jonathan Dimbleby

Moment, Big, Call

I'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit.
Louise Jameson

Grateful, Quite, Helped

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

Everything, Together, Different

As the BBC approaches the final phase of decisions about its future, it will be important for those involved to be established in post and ready to take responsibility for implementation of the outcome.
Pauline Neville-Jones

Future, Important, Decisions

I am sorry to be leaving the BBC. I have enjoyed a fascinating seven years at the corporation and am particularly proud to have played a small part in the development of the BBC's Global News services, BBC World Service and BBC World.
Pauline Neville-Jones

Sorry, Small, Leaving

The BBC's television, radio and online services remain an important part of British culture and the fact the BBC continues to thrive amongst audiences at home and abroad is testament to a professional and dedicated management team who are committed to providing a quality public service.
Pauline Neville-Jones

Home, Important, Team

I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The BBC could have sacked me and that would have been the end of my career on TV.
John Sweeney

Life, End, Lost

The BBC can be infuriating at times but I love it with a passion.
John Sweeney

Love, Passion, Times

My YouTube videos have literally millions of views... Yet I'm still airbrushed out of the BBC Stalinist revision of history; the chart shows have been instructed not to play my music!
Jonathan King

Music, History, Play

When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep.
Michael Apted

Time, Good, Place

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

Service, Public, Market

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

Future, Failure, Question

The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.
Gavyn Davies

Public, Somebody, Interests

The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.'
Gavyn Davies

God, Best, Live

The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC.
Gavyn Davies

Sadness, Together, Enjoy

Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
Gavyn Davies

Future, Same, Result

The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.
Gavyn Davies

Today, Powerful, Nation

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
Gavyn Davies

Life, Today, Writing

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