100 cultural figures on 100 years of the BBC

David Hare, Ali Smith, Steve McQueen, Russell T Davies, Meera Syal, Melvyn Bragg and others tackle some difficult questions about the corporation's prospects to mark its centenary - and pick the shows they'd like to take to a desert island

David Hare, playwright
Alongside the NHS and the welfare state, it's the finest expression of mid-20th-century public idealism. And it's also the insane bureaucracy that George Orwell satirised in Nineteen Eighty-Four.