Top Programmes Quotes
It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.
Lesley Garrett
The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.
Jonathan Dimbleby
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
Imre Lakatos
That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.
Jonathan Dimbleby
To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
All Programmes Quotes
It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.
Lesley Garrett 
56% of people like this quote
The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.
Jonathan Dimbleby 
56% of people like this quote
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
Imre Lakatos 
55% of people like this quote
That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.
Jonathan Dimbleby 
55% of people like this quote
To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.
Tahar Ben Jelloun 
55% of people like this quote
If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
Malcolm Fraser 
53% of people like this quote
I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.
Rory Bremner 
52% of people like this quote
I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for.
Jonathan Dimbleby 
52% of people like this quote
I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.
Jonathan Dimbleby 
52% of people like this quote
I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes.
Jill Dando 
52% of people like this quote

Jonathan Dimbleby
John Prescott
Jill Dando
David Attenborough
Rory Bremner
Angela Merkel