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

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"I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two."

Loss

"I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based."

Communication

"The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales."

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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."

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"I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for."

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"That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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

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