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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. "

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" 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. "

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Yourself

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" 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. "

" The long, forensic interview really matters. "

" It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night. "

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

" I have to grit my teeth sometimes, knowing I am going to be written about. But I think it is my life, and I don't want to get people interested in debating it. But I do feel that if you are going to put yourself about as a public person on a television screen, there's a curiosity. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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 have a great deal of joy in my life, and I'm very fortunate. That combination makes you aware of just how wonderful life can be on the one hand and how dreadful it can be for people on the other. You can't be happy in isolation. "

" Until I was 21, I wasn't going into the media. I was a professional show jumper; I was going to have a farm... Then my father died, and it changed my life. I realised I had to have a go at being a journalist to see if I could cut the mustard. "

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

" I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism. "

" 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. "

" The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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Opinion

Enough

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" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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