I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.
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There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money.
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.
The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.
It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it.
The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.
The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.
We had everything from the BBC on our TV, so British drama seems very close to home.
The BBC is a victim of its own independence.
One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.
The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.'
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