Quotes About BBC

I'm completely addicted to Radio 4, even 100-year-old things like 'Just a Minute.' I even arrange my weekends around the Sunday edition of 'The Archers.'

The first person on the BBC that played me was Huw Stephens. I was sat around my laptop with my girlfriend and my family, and it was super-exciting. It felt weird, and it sounded weirder, but it was great.

People think you get paid millions by the BBC if you're famous, but me? Me, I'm in the Premier Inn in Gillingham.

Presenting football is something that I love to do. I'm very fortunate being able to do one of the BBC's flagship shows.

The BBC is very prestigious from an American's perspective, so I'm a big fan of it.

I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising.

I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.

Accountability and value for money for taxpayers must be at the heart of how the BBC is funded.

They respect rappers in the U.S., but in England, it's the Queen's country. She'll forever be putting out the message on these BBC networks that there's no hood: it's tea and red phoneboxes.

The Watersons' polyphonic austerity refreshed the sound of modern folk in Britain to the extent that publications as diverse as Sing, Melody Maker and Gramophone all praised Frost and Fire to the stars, while BBC Two commissioned a documentary on the group, Travelling for a Living, aired in 1966.

Web traffic figures for the BBC news website:

The fact that the Princess of Wales, a major international figure, and the BBC, a leading public broadcasting company, had to go to such extraordinary lengths to record an interview makes a mockery of the notion that we live in an open society. Indeed, if the programme had been the smuggled testimony of a Middle Eastern princess there would have been outraged protests about a repressive regime.

I was a shy kid so my parents sent me to Anna Scher's theatre school. That's how I got my first proper role aged ten in the BBC show 'The Glittering Prizes.'

In my opinion, the BBC are one of the best producers of drama in the world, and it made me incredibly happy to get the opportunity to be one of the leading men in one of their productions.

It would be extraordinary if the BBC were to make me the first black 'Doctor Who;' it would be extraordinary.

I made it clear when the Barclays took over the 'Telegraph' that I wanted no editorial position there. There is no way I could take a high-level editorial position at the papers. I have my work for the BBC, and that would be compromised if I did.

I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too close to the telly. Given that this 1978 slice of neo-noir takes place almost entirely in the dark streets of a deserted downtown L.A., it's really a perfect midnight movie.

By 2018 the BBC seemed to have decided that items of specifically gay news needed to be not just reported but headlined as major news.

Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you're working all the time, so you're learning rather than sitting around and waitressing.

It's an absolute disgrace that there isn't a books programme on the BBC.

The BBC is in many ways wonderful, but it is not good at recognising when a programme has come to the end of its natural life.

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

I do think the BBC could do more, but I've always thought the BBC could do more - I think there should be more arts programmes full stop.

The BBC will always be attacked by whoever is in government. It is that George Bush thing of 'If you're not with us you are against us.'