I usually always listen to programmes before posting about them, but in this case I'm going to make an exception....
Wherever I look on social media tonight - whether it be on Twitter or at Biased BBC - I'm seeing something of a rare consensus (from Left and Right) about one particular BBC Radio 4 programme: David Baddiel's Don't Make Me Laugh.
No one seems to have liked it. Some just found it deeply unfunny; others found it grossly distasteful; while most found it be both deeply unfunny and grossly distasteful.
On the day of the Queen's 90th birthday, the programme apparently discussed "Does the Queen go to the toilet?" and "Has she had sex more than four times?" The Queen's vulva was also apparently mentioned for humorous effect.
It just beggars belief, doesn't it?
Given that there weren't any nice tweets about it, I suspect David Baddiel was being sarcastic at the start of his Twitter response. The jaw-dropping bit, however, is his accompanying 'apology' and 'excuse':
BBC Radio Scotland presenter Louise White asked the obvious question in reply:
The newspapers are bound go to town on this. Hopefully they'll bear in mind the utter incompetence of whoever was responsible for that rescheduling as well as the programme's content.
Update 22/4: And, yes, the newspapers are going to town on this (well, one of them - the one Radio 4 comedians love to hate):
Update 22/4: And, yes, the newspapers are going to town on this (well, one of them - the one Radio 4 comedians love to hate):
Why did Radio 4 put out this vile prime-time show on Her Majesty's birthday? BBC listeners stunned after programme mocks the Queen's sex life and makes reference to her on the toilet
