Tag Archives: Jonathan Dimbleby

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

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

I used to hunt as a child but gave up the chase in my 'Ho Ho Ho Chi-Minh, we shall fight and we shall win' chanting and marching days – by which time I had come to share Oscar Wilde's feelings about 'the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.' Jonathan Dimbleby

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 thousands of the letters. Jonathan Dimbleby

Rolling my trousers down to expose the upper part of my buttocks and having a knife pressed up and down my spine by a Russian white witch, as she murmured incantations, was certainly a new experience to cure my backache. It was surprisingly soothing. Jonathan Dimbleby

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. Jonathan Dimbleby

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't. Jonathan Dimbleby

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. Jonathan Dimbleby

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

Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words. Jonathan Dimbleby