It beggars belief the eye-watering sums that these BBC apparatchiks are paid. If they ran around for thirty hours a day with a red hot poker up their broadcasting arses they'd still be grossly overpaid. Ask about it and you'll be told that to get the best we have to pay top dollar. I wouldn't mind paying top dollar if we had the best, but when do we get them. I haven't heard anyone clamouring to switch on Today, or any other BBC programme because the host is a broadcasting genius and the programmes are unmissable.