Second week of strictly Come Dancing, but this time, the departure can't be said to be a travesty, even if Len continued to be an iconoclast. As Lilia Kopylova said, Richard Dunwoody has no natural rythym, so it's just as well he put in all those hours. He was hilariously bad. Brendan Cole and Jo Wood stayed out of the dance-off solely because of Brendan's star power I would say, but they won't go far. Dunwoody's dance was like a geriatric trying to boogy (which in essence it was).
Talking of an older generation, Sir Terry Wogan is stepping down from the Radio 2 Breakfast Show to be replaced by (former?) enfant terrible Chris Evans. On headline tried to stoke up another ageism row at the BBC with "Listeners angry as Wogan, 71, makes way for Evans, 43." If it left out the ages, it wouldn't be controversial, but given that Wogan started broadcasting this flagship show in 1972 when he was 34 (with a nine-year break between 1984 and 1993, when he pursued his television career), it's a misnomer to bring into the equation the question of age as a point why listeners are fuming over the new helmsman. You try to stir something that isn't there and it's not the BBC that ends up embarrassed. Sub-editors need to be kept on tighter leashes.