There is a tradition of television which isn't dross and stands up. Betjeman's programmes, which were made for … - Jonathan Meades

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Jonathan Meades

There is a tradition of television which isn't dross and stands up. Betjeman's programmes, which were made for 2
6d with one man and a cine camera, were amazing to watch because he was such a great talker.

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I think that cheap music often does make you dream more than more serious music, whether that's serious music by Beethoven or Miles Davis or Pink Floyd. . . if the Floyd ever did serious music, which I seriously doubt.

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I didn't know what I wanted to do when I was a child. I did want to be a cartographer but that was partly because I liked Ordnance Survey maps and when I used to go to my grandparents' house from Southampton Station one went past the headquarters of the Ordnance Survey.

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I don't see any point in having a public service broadcaster which attempts to compete with the commercial sector. Obviously part of its remit is to entertain, but entertainment doesn't necessarily mean scraping the bottom of the barrel and appealing to the very lowest common denominator.

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When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen, which allowed me to write, more or less anything.

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One doesn't mind adverse criticism so long as it isn't stupid.

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