Today's sitrep

Former producer Tim Luckhurst rounds up the usual suspects - Liddle and Harding - for one of his occasional pieces looking at the prospects for Radio 4's Today programme, this time in The Independent. He notes the move of Angus Stickler to Newsnight, bemoaning the lact of news-making investigations now, and looks at the dropping of Ed Stourton for Justin Webb in the presenter roster. "Insiders describe replacement of Stourton as a textbook BBC cock-up: maximum embarrassment for zero net gain". But audiences are up....