A full transcript of Armando Iannucci's Bafta lecture for 2012 may be found here. courtesy of "The Guardian".

"The BBC should be more aggressive, all of television should, against the politicians and press barons who seek to tame it and rein it in. It's up to all of us to fight, fight to recapture first position with our ideas, but fight forcefully and loudly against all those who criticise what we do. We shouldn't be scared of offending, or portraying a multi-cultural nation, or pouring money into talent, or making shows that split opinion, that occasionally fail."  


The BBC News site covers it here.