"It seems we make sitcoms work by luck rather than design. [The American method] They fund a sitcom expensively right …"

"[On pitching ideas to programme commissioners] When I am turned down, my first thought may be that the person concern…"

"I feel there is terrible prejudice [...] I think it's to do with laziness and preconceptions principally laziness and…"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"

"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"

"In 1973, Roger Deakin, a British writer and environmental activist, acquired a tumbledown sixteenth-century farmhouse…"

"Der lange Marsch durch die Institutionen."

"The poet of England, he gave to the love of country, to patriotism as nowadays we call it, a voice which never shall …"