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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.
That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.
I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.
The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.
The long, forensic interview really matters.
The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales.
Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many... →
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.
I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat.
I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.
I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.
Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.
While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.