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Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.
Gavyn Davies / Reporter
Almost Everyone
Paying
Services
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The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.
Gavyn Davies / Reporter
Running
Cheerleader
Cheerleading
Organisation
Should Have
Bbc
Interests
Runs
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The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.
Gavyn Davies / Reporter
Commentary
Kingdoms
Most Powerful
Our Lives
Powerful
Today
Unifying
United Kingdom
Bbc
Forces
Provides
Soundtrack
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It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.
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Failure
Digital
Digital World
Interesting
Justify
World
Bbc
Fee
Licence
Market
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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.
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Believe
Mass
People
Public Service
Want
Bbc
Broadcaster
Commercial
Durable
Fee
Licence
Mass Market
Sector
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Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.
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Deflation
Inflation
Needs
Orthodoxy
Serious
Held
Indeed
Rarely
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Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.
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Gullible
Investing
Making Money
Authors
Folk
Normally
Recommend
Stock
Stock Market
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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 / Reporter
Celebrate
Glue
Joy
Mourn
People
Sadness
United Kingdom
Bbc
Binds
Uk
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Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.
Gavyn Davies / Reporter
Changed
Consensus
Economic
Policy
Share
Splits
Apparently
Broad
Decade
Economists
Last
Last Decade
Recession
Seemed
Settled
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Over the last decade, - economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.
Gavyn Davies / Reporter
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Two
Years
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As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.
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Independence
Governors
Impartiality
Long
Thinking
Transparent
Views
Appointment
Bbc
Confident
Broad
Mix
Political Views
Previous
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
Gavyn Davies / Reporter
Authority
British
Chairman
Organisation
Prime Minister
Public Life
Resignation
Responsibility
Today
Writing
Accept
Life Today I Am
Bbc
Charged
Public
Honourable
Minister
Tender
Therefore
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Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
Gavyn Davies / Reporter
Diversity
Fragmentation
Private Sector
Proliferation
Radio
Television
Tiny
Would Be
Audiences
Bbc
Channels
Simply
More And More
Plurality
Private
Result
Same Thing
Sector
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The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.
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Past
Son
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The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.'
Gavyn Davies / Reporter
Blue
Comparison
Conspiracy
Programmes
Terrific
Walking
God Best World
Bbc
Beasts
In The Past
Mainly
Planet
Raft
Ratings
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