Excuse me for a moment of the day

Thought For Today is regularly lashed as bland, anaemic fare that should be scrapped at trying to be all things to all men and thus being nothing to no-one.  Occasionally, it surpasses itself through the shock of saying something that is actually important.  This happened several months ago when the Chief Rabbi ws asked (in an innocuous way, with its incendiary subtext disguised) his opinion on how to achieve peace in the Middle East and he offered some acute criticism of Israel.  There a big hoo-haa and the BBC apologised that it should have clarified to Jonathan Sacks that he was still on-air, though why it should apologise for uncovering the Chief Rabbi's true feelings towards the divisions in Israel/Palestine is a mystery.
Today, another lovely moment, if only because it is unexpected, occurred as the mobile phone of the guest went off as he concluded his homily.  There was a little dissonance as it was so bizarre that a ringtone would be broadcast, but it swiftly dawned that it was indeed from the studio itself.  Evan Davis, after apologising for the guest's insistent call (indicating that the latter was in a different studio - I only caught the end of the broadcast - and that it was none of the Today staff making such a lapse), nicely parlayed it, as if pre-planned, into the next news item which was about mobile phone theft.  The phone's jingle was not a crime however but one of those faux pas to be celebrated when serendipity strikes.  The guest may be humiliated and take a day or so to live it down but he'll make sure his phone is on silent if ever invited back again.