You're the Top Dog at the BBC

Everybody in the UK pays what is in essence a form of television tax which goes to the BBC at the moment it's roughly £160. I mean all public service broadcasting that and Germany does that, France does that, Italy does that and Britain is the first example of it began in 100 years ago. In a funny sort of way it's worth just exploring your own past because it's quite telling about BBC past and present. You were the son of the BBC's perhaps most famous presenter of the time. A man who had been a war correspondent during World War II he then I think was presenter at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. It feels a bit nepotistic that you ended up