#bbc

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

#disposed #exist #experts #favourably #feel

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

#am #authority #bbc #british #chairman

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

#case #certain #claim #convincingly #distinctive

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women. ↗

— Julie Walters

#baby boomers #bbc #boomers #editors #education

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

#backyard #bbc #between #britain #budget

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

#bbc #circus #days #film #flying

China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world, Russia is, Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its many language services around the world. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#around #back #bbc #china #cutting

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

#commentary #forces #kingdom #lives #most

At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do. ↗

— Evan Davis

#bbc #been #bit #comes #goes

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

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#bbc #load #old #produces #programmes