Radio Ga-Ga

IMAGINE you're on the M6, stuck in traffic. You turn on BBC local radio to check out the traffic bulletins (I can't think of any other reason to voluntarily tune into BBC local radio) to find out what is going on.

The amateurish presenter goes across live to the BBC Traffic centre in Manchester for the latest (latest as in what was on the computer screen before the traffic person, who is only doing it until a part in an RSC production comes along).

The would-be Othello puts all the gusto into his performance, announcing that the four lorries which had crashed and shed their loads were still there (just as they were 15 minutes before when he was last on air) and that their were long tailbacks (slightly longer than 15 minutes before).

People who were in the service station next to the crash can't get out of the service station (presumably Costa-lot coffee will be offering freebies to those trapped? More likely cashing in a captive audience) and the contents of the lorries spilling onto the road has stripped the tarmac, meaning it has to be relaid (presumably one was carrying Diet Coke, then).

So what do you, having heard that. You're going to be stuck there for hours, possibly.

Well, if it was me, I wouldn't ring up BBC Radio Lancashire and criticise the police for NOT PROVIDING CUPS OF TEA TO THOSE STUCK IN THE QUEUE!

For me, this incident only served to prove that radio phone-ins should be banned. Especially BBC local radio ones. They serve two purposes only: a) to provide employment for people not good enough to broadcast on phone-ins normal people might ring in to and b) to give people deemed to loonie to appear on Victoria Derbyshire's phone-in someone to vent their spleen.

Give them all a blog and be gone with them.