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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.'

I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.

Jonathan Dimbleby

I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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

Jonathan Dimbleby

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.

Jonathan Dimbleby

The long, forensic interview really matters.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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

Jonathan Dimbleby

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

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.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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

Jonathan Dimbleby

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.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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

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

Jonathan Dimbleby

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

Jonathan Dimbleby

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

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

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.'

Jonathan Dimbleby

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.

Jonathan Dimbleby

My two great treats in life are baked beans and vanilla ice-cream.

Jonathan Dimbleby

I've never been a depressive, but I felt quite close to the edge at times. But you never know what's around the corner. Mercifully, what's around the corner is joy.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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

Jonathan Dimbleby

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

Jonathan Dimbleby

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

Jonathan Dimbleby