#bbc

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#speech #stephen-fry #insight

Rule 1: The Doctor lies. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#doctor-who #eleventh-doctor #let-s-kill-hitler #doctor-who

Never knowingly be serious. Rule 27. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#doctor-who #eleventh-doctor #doctor-who

When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep. ↗

— Michael Apted

#asleep #bbc #crying #firmly #fortune

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. ↗

— David Attenborough

#before #i #joined #navy #order

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance. ↗

— Kate Adie

#also #appearance #bbc #beirut #civil

CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad. ↗

— Roger Ailes

#bad #bbc #cnn #how #international

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. ↗

— David Attenborough

#broad #fill #hole #interest #programs

I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#believe #broadcaster #commercial #durable #fee

The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#bbc #binds #celebrate #enjoy #glue