Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.

I spent a lot of Saturday night on BBC television, being chased around by yellow rubber balls.

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

To win BBC's Sound of 2018 was a huge honour. A lot of my favourite artists have won it before.

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.

I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.

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

Any donation does make a difference. Getting involved is what makes BBC Children in Need so moving.

I'm delighted that the BBC has given me the chance to delve into the murky world of 'The Body Farm.'

As a kid I loved to listen to the radio, later I became a radio artiste and would listen to the BBC.

When the BBC approached me, it just felt right for me to be a part of an institution like Eurovision.

Rupert Murdoch is in bed with Cameron. Of course they want to kill the BBC... anybody who is in the way.

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

As a BBC broadcaster, I really do hope that the new incarnation of 'Top Gear' with Chris Evans does well.

CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.

Not being part of the BBC with 'Top Gear' any more does pain me, because it's an organisation I approve of.

I've chosen not to go to Sky or ITV because the programmes I've made at the BBC, I want to carry on making.

The BBC is very aware of its role in shaping people's consciousness… it's manipulative and deeply political.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

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

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

My fantasy is, if I wasn't on 'Dexter,' I would move my family to London and work for the BBC on 'Doctor Who.'

There is no point in putting out 'The Complete BBC Sessions,' and someone's growling that you missed something.

Graham Norton makes me laugh. I love him. I'm not kidding. I watch him on BBC America every week. He's so fast.

The BBC is a very confident broadcasting organisation and it needs brands like 'Top of the Pops' and 'Top Gear.'

My background is in broadcast television - I used to be a travel host for BBC, Discovery, and National Geographic.

I'd love to play a villain in BBC drama 'Sherlock' - some sort of evil, slinky blonde would be right up my street.

I confess I had butterflies doing the first BBC 'Politics Live' of 2020. It felt like the first day back at school.

I enjoy commentating on the big tournaments for the BBC, the occasional exhibition match, and my business interests.

I'm slightly obsessed with Moomins. They were my specialist subject on BBC's 'Celebrity Mastermind' a few years ago!

It was through watching documentaries on the BBC in the late 1980s that I first became interested in art and history.

The BBC always wants to blame things on Brexit. I'm not saying this is a conspiracy: I'm saying it is a fact of life.

When you sign over your music to the BBC or Channel 4, you are signing it over, and they either use it, or they don't.

I like BBC news; I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot.

I love Britain. I'd like to work there. Maybe a BBC crime show; I love those. A thriller would be something different.

I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.

My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was 'Just William.' It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel.

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

I'd like to thank the BBC for allowing me to work here. And I'd like to thank the wife and kids for making it necessary.

The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.

I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times.

I love the BBC. I love working with the BBC. They leave you alone; they give you zero notes. It's like being on vacation.

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

When I worked for the BBC, what I was paid to do 'House Party' was all over the tabloid press, there was no privacy there.

People know more about my views than they do about most BBC presenters because I had a life before becoming a BBC presenter.

I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas.

There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money.

I just thought my 50th year in the BBC is 2018, and it has to end sometime, and I thought that would be a good note to go out.

I don't want to do the same thing all the time, and I was thrilled to bits to do a BBC comedy. It's the home of British comedy.

I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.

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