#bbc

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 #get #i #loves

I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before! ↗

— Adam Faith

#because #been #before #down #ever

The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI. ↗

— Georgie Fame

#audience #bbc #because #did #had

When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it. ↗

— Simon Callow

#ask #back #bbc #bring #decided

What comes with a job as a staff member of the BBC is a certain self-censoring that you get utterly used to. You don't say everything you think. You hold back on some things. ↗

— Evan Davis

#bbc #certain #comes #everything #get

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

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#big #call #me #moment #note

We're safe enough now,' he thought, 'we're snug and tight, like an air-raid shelter. We can hold out. It's just the food that worries me. Food and coal for the fire. We've enough for two or three days, not more. By that time...' No use thinking ahead as far as that. And they'd be giving directions on the wireless. People would be told what to do. And now, in the midst of many problems, he realised that it was dance music only coming over the air. Not Children's Hour, as it should have been. He glanced at the dial. Yes, they were on the Home Service all right. Dance records. He switched to the Light programme. He knew the reason. The usual programmes had been abandoned. This only happened at exceptional times. Elections, and such. He tried to remember if it had happened in the war... ("The Birds") ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#emergency #radio #food

I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#cleared #dance #decks #down #get

We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials. We use it quickly and carelessly. If were genuinely materialistic people, we would understand where materials come from and where they go to. But, at the moment, the entire global economy seems to be built on the model of digging things up from one hole in the ground on one side of the earth, transporting them around the world, using them for a few days, and sticking them in a hole in the ground on the other side of the world. ↗

— George Monbiot

#human-footprint #monbiot #economy

I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.' ↗

— Russell Brand

#came #i #i do #language #like