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" In an arts programme, my job was to go where the talent was. And the talent was in popular culture. "

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" Miliband failed us, his Labour supporters. And Labour will now, because of him, be in a disaster zone for a long time. "

" I sometimes think the only true record of England is the 'Cumberland News.' "

" I don't feel like I'm slowing down. "

" I like the fact George R. R. Martin took Shakespeare's political plays as material, but he also took on all sorts of other sensational stories and mingled them in together. "

" You ask 20 of your friends how English and American democracy came about. None of them would say that Anglicanism or Protestantism had anything to do with it. But it was crucial to it! "

" Autobiographical fiction is very tricky. "

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" I enjoy what was called 'swotting' in my day. "

" The best of pop in our country is among the best of the arts that we do. And Britain does the arts as well as, and sometimes better than, anybody else on the planet. "

" Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District. "

" More people go to Tate Modern than watch the Arsenal. "

" In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it. "

" The class barricades have been stormed by the forces of a broad culture, which is made up of clusters of individuals who have decided for themselves what they will be in society. "

" I love writing, and I love making arts programmes. "

" I was born in a radio world, and I got so much from it. "

" I've been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can't believe my luck. "

" Television, above all, is the place where people can see the world they live in, and if the world they live in is a world without the arts, so much the worse for television, and so much the worse for the viewers. "

" Magna Carta has 63 clauses in abbreviated Latin. Two of them that are still on the statute book, numbers 39 and 40, could be said to have changed the way in which the free world has grown. "

" I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle. "

" I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disregarded. There's an awful lot of frailty and doubt about it, which I understand and share, but there are certain things you just have to acknowledge. "

" Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do, and to think of this attitude as 'very English?' "

" Class doesn't create culture anymore. "

" The success of the arts has come through a mix of public subsidy, substantial private support, and good box-office receipts, but central to Labour's post-1997 programme has been a determination to increase access as much as excellence. "

" I don't get nervous when I'm interviewing someone on film - it can be cut, and we can do it again. It is quite nerve-racking doing things live. "

" We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords. "

" Well, I don't think I'm good-looking... I know people who are good-looking, and I'm not good-looking. "

" Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reserved for if you came back from Australia - you know, back in the '40s and '50s. "

" There's a lot of hours in the week if you use them properly. "

" Film has changed the way we look at the past. "