I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.
Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The management can be through pharmaceutical intervention, talk therapy, mindfulness programmes, diet and exercise changes, all kinds of things.
Nobody wants to remain poor. Those who are poor want to move away from poverty. That is why, all our programmes must be for the poor. All our schemes must serve the poor.
When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald.
Personally, I'd like us to have a few more women on the 'Today' programme.
I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.
Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?
I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.
I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it's there. It's mapped out for me.
If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.
I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think women can be the worst ones for picking each other apart.
The only work I ever turned down was a cable programme called Diving for Excrement.
TV programmes are so bad these days, even idiots are getting rid of their idiot boxes.
Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.
We assess that there is no significant threat to the UK from nuclear weapons at present, but developments continue to be monitored closely. We remain committed to limiting the proliferation of nuclear weapons through our international treaty obligations, and national programmes.
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.
Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time. '
I shall continue to invent new anti-slavery programmes around the world.
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.