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 toda…

- Gavyn Davies

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…

- Gavyn Davies

Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny au…

- Gavyn Davies

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 …

- Gavyn Davies

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility …

- Gavyn Davies

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

Over the last decade, - economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians ap…

- Gavyn Davies

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 sh…

- Gavyn Davies

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 comp…

- Gavyn Davies