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" I used to hunt as a child but gave up the chase in my 'Ho Ho Ho Chi-Minh, we shall fight and we shall win' chanting and marching days - by which time I had come to share Oscar Wilde's feelings about 'the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.' "

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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. "

Jonathan Dimbleby

Free

Years

Two

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

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

" I've never been a depressive, but I felt quite close to the edge at times. But you never know what's around the corner. Mercifully, what's around the corner is joy. "

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

Jonathan Dimbleby

Long

Names

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

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

Jonathan Dimbleby

Opinion

Enough

" As a young man, causes of one kind or another engaged me, and I thought the media is where you express yourself in that. I lived with the illusion, for quite a long time, that if you described something accurately, something would be done about it. "

Jonathan Dimbleby

Yourself

Time

" 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. "

" Food is about communal togetherness. Our family does sit at the table. I think it's a great tragedy if a family doesn't have a table, as there is such an atmosphere of good will and warmth when we have eight people sitting around it. "

" I don't love the media. I'm part of it, but you can't love a porcupine. "

" 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

" 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. "

" The long, forensic interview really matters. "

" 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

" Rolling my trousers down to expose the upper part of my buttocks and having a knife pressed up and down my spine by a Russian white witch, as she murmured incantations, was certainly a new experience to cure my backache. It was surprisingly soothing. "

" 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

" 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

" I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great broadcaster. "

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

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

" Travelling to make television programmes means I have some unusual food memories. In Pasto, Colombia, I was taken to a restaurant where I chose my meat for the evening from a cage of white rats. It tasted perfectly good - like rabbit. "