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Bazalgette has co-written four books including The Food Revolution and You Don't Have to Diet, is author of a study of the international TV formats business, Billion Dollar Game and is a regular speaker at global media events. He lectures on media convergence and creativity. He has written widely on privacy and the internet, young people and voting, arts and philanthropy, public service broadcasting and student volunteering.
He is a consultant to two of Sony’s television divisions in the UK, Chairman of MirriAd, non-executive director of Base79, Nutopia and YouGov and also a member of BBH’s Advisory Board. He is a former board member of Channel 4 and former Deputy Chairman of the National Film & Television School where he helped put up an £8million new teaching building. He is Deputy Chairman of English National Opera and is a Trustee of Debate Mate.
Bazalgette once speculated whether the funding model of the BBC could be changed by reducing the licence fee to pay specifically for its core news and information content with voluntary subscription introduced to pay for drama and entertainment.
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“I confess what chiefly interests me, in the annals of that war, is the grandeur of spirit exhibited by a few of the Indian chiefs. A nameless Wampanoag who was put to death by the Mohicans, after cruel tortures, was asked by his butchers, during the torture, how he liked the war?—he said, “he found it as sweet as sugar was to Englishmen.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child’s interests, just as it is empty formalism to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated.”
—Jerome S. Bruner (20th century)