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" I am now certain that we have no alternative but to reduce urgently the levels of carbon that we are still pumping into the atmosphere as though tomorrow simply didn't matter. If we don't act collectively and individually, our children and their children will reap a whirlwind which will obliterate their civilisation. "

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" My only real claim to fame is that I was southern England show-jumping champion in 1966. The day after my father died, 'Horse & Hound' magazine tipped me as a future Olympic champion, and I took it seriously. You can only really enjoy something if you take it seriously. "

Jonathan Dimbleby

Champion

Day

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

" Recently, I had a hip resurfaced. It's different from a hip replacement because it's done with titanium. I like to think that it's the consequence of riding horses so strenuously, but I fear it's much more mundane and was just early-onset arthritis. "

Jonathan Dimbleby

Think

" You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place. "

" 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. "

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

" Food is important to me, but I wouldn't say that I'm a gourmet. I don't like tricksy food. "

Jonathan Dimbleby

Say

" My two great treats in life are baked beans and vanilla ice-cream. "

" I was a reluctant convert, and I am by no means a zealot. But the evidence is compelling: to write off wind-power is either ill-informed or dishonest. "

Jonathan Dimbleby

Write

Either

" Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong. "

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

" I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14. "

" I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else. "

" Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty. They read the statistics, but they rarely witness at first hand the misery and degradation of life on a dollar a day. "

" In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be. "

" 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. "

Jonathan Dimbleby

Prince

Original

" I cycle, I take an hour's strenuous walk in the evening, I play tennis twice a week with a trainer, and I sail. I used to ride horses professionally - I'd ride seven or eight horses a day, so I had to be fit for that. "

" The long, forensic interview really matters. "

" Ethiopia is engraved on my heart. I first went in 1973 because I heard of a terrible famine. They were denying it even as we got the film out. The coverage destroyed the emperor's credibility. "

" It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it. "

Jonathan Dimbleby

Opinion

Enough

" I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat. "

" I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it. "

" 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. "

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

Jonathan Dimbleby

Moment

Character

" I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't. "

" For a few months when I was about 17, I smoked a small cigar because I thought it looked cool and it would get me the girls. It didn't. "

" As it is, the grotesque distortions of the global market mean that for every dollar the West dispatches to Africa in the form of aid, two dollars are clawed back through subsidies and tariff barriers: a monumental rip-off by the rich as they instruct the poor to accept 'free' trade or else. "

Jonathan Dimbleby

Rich

Africa

" Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to think again. "

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

" At home in Devon, my wife Jessica does a huge proportion of the cooking - I do the basics. My timing is extremely good, particularly when it comes to vegetables, perhaps because in my work, timing is everything. I know exactly what fits into a minute when broadcasting, and I apply the same to carrots. "