BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on 15 September didn’t go down well with some of its audience. The Times columnist Janice Turner tweeted: “OMG another segment on London Fashion Week! I love fashion but I want news before 9am. Today starting to sound like local radio.”
There were countless more. My own inbox, normally devoid of broadcasting chatter these days, filled up with grumpiness. “I’ve had to turn the Today programme off for the second day in a row,” wrote a well-known female journalist. “Listening to huge chunks of bilge from London Fashion Week on a day when North Korea fired another missile over Japan.” A former Today output editor was equally blunt: “That was the worst edition of the programme I’ve heard – and I should know, having put out a few rubbish ones in my time.”
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