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"It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it."
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"I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me."

"You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest."

"The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest."

"They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies."

"For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before."

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"Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant."

"Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics."

"You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for."

"I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them."

"All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies."

"People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure."

"I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit."

"An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment."
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