Don't be my guest

Though my record shows two spells in the production team of Today, I find I now listen less and less, and have missed all this season's guest editors.   Reading the sages of Twitter, the efforts of today's celebrity have fallen short.  "The Today programme informs me that Sam Taylor-Wood, surprisingly for a conceptual artist, is a boring lump of self-regard" "I am starting to think Jordan would have been a brilliant guest editor, by comparison. It'd certainly have lightened the mood of the nation."

A correspondent who also has "previous" on Today has forwarded a copy of his letter to the programme condemning the very concept of guests editors.  He is, of course, a notorious old curmudgeon, and regular writer to the show, but is pretty certain it won't be read out.  So here's his PS.  

Incidentally I would like to be "guest coach" for England during the final test in Sydney. Do you think Andy Flower will step aside and the ECB agree - after all I have been watching Test cricket since the Australian tour of 1948 ?

Maybe I am aiming a little high - perhaps an Old Bailey judge for a day, or I should be content with "guest manager" at Manchester United next Saturday at Old Trafford ? After all I can chew gum and rant and rave with the best of them at referees and players, as many a BBC producer will tell you (but I can't manage the Scottish accent).