Today's guest editors
The Today Programme planning team is a highly secretive unit. Their work is often described as the black ops of radio. They're particularly dangerous at Christmas when they take on five guest editors.
This year's editors include Yoko Ono, Dr Rowan Williams, Zac Goldsmith and Sir Clive Woodward - so discretion is a must.
However the the team has decided to release a few clues about the editors' content just to heighten the sense of anticipation.
As you will see, their clues take the form of a popular Christmas carol and should be sung aloud to the tune of Away in a Manger:
This Christmas no danger
of a bid for John Krebs
"This Show must be stranger"
That's what Yoko said
And Bluer and Greener
Said Zac in two minds
With discipline said Woodward
Throughout the back line
And when we asked Rowan
"What would Jesus do?"
He said "Drop Thought, shoot Humphrys and
Merry Christmas to you".
Comments
Rowan Williams to edit the Today programme? In the interests of balance, will you be extending a similar invitation to Richard Dawkins?
No need to worry about Dawkins for 'balance'. As the established Church enjoying unique political priviliges and above anything else,anxious to maintain them, the Archbishop will ne sure not to anger the liberalist(sic) consensus.
With the increasingly dominating rise of Islam in the UK, it is the conflagration of disestablishment at the stake of 'constitutional inequality' and not sin(woz that?), that is most likely to be the stuff of His Grace's nocturnal perturbations.
jack
"However the the team has decided to release a few clues about the editors' content just to heighten the sense of anticipation."
Shouldn't that be 'sense of dread'?
How strange, that with a high percentage of the population in both Scotland and England (possibly Wales too) expressing themselves to be in favour of devolution for England and an English Parliament leading to a breakup of the United Kingdom that the Act of Union was not chosen as an Act to be repealed Popularity clearly was not taken into account by the panel - and only relatively modern and fairly trivial matters were selected.
So your letting a future Tory candidate in Zak Goldsmith edit the show is that really acceptable? Will you be letting future Labour, Lib Dem, UKIP, Green and BNP candidates edit the show as well?
What a shame this blog seems to have been overun by the usual Guardian anti-Christian PC brigade.
Rockingham in post 1# asks if Dawkins should have been invited to provide a balanced view. Grow up Rockingham, Dawkins has already published his 'book', he has already had his say, perhaps you would prefer to not listen to a Christian perspective...well I have had your PC views rammed down my throat for years..so why don't you crawl back under your rock?.
Seems like a good idea to me to have guest editors. Maybe that is something you could do twice a year or every four months?
If I'd written that poem, I'd remain "highly secretive" too.
Don't quit your day job, guys.