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" 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. "

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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. "

Jonathan Dimbleby

Think

Family

Food

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Jonathan Dimbleby

Say

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

Jonathan Dimbleby

Long

Names

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" The long, forensic interview really matters. "

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

" 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