Generational change in venerated organisations can be bumpy. The deities of Radio 4 newsreading have moved on. Bryan "Zeus" Perkins is long gone; Charlotte "Hera" Green and Peter "Poseidon" Donaldson have now hung up their bakelite headphones and headed to Mount Olympus. Alice "Hestia" Arnold has returned to the hearth. Harriet "Demeter" Cass will soon be tending the Olympian Fields.
From the Stygian depths of the new BBC Newsroom (a.k.a Dr Evil's Volcano News Lair) a new breed of younger would-be heroes are tangling with our language.
A sage and valued correspondent (probably castable as Agamemnon) says he's noticed some of them inventing new, but nonetheless interesting entities.
Best over the last two days have been the Nobel Police Prize ("Now then, that's enough from you, sir") and the Royal College of Positions (watch out for those members!).
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