Off the ball

I hope Zoe Ball will get a good production team when she takes over from Chris Evans at Radio 2. Her current Saturday show on the network, three hours from 3pm, is all over the place. But it hit new levels of vacuity yesterday, when Angela Scanlon covered the slot (with Zoe in Blackpool).

A producer (I presume there was one) let her start with a call-out for misheard lyrics, and it went downhill from there. Station boss Lewis Carnie should be tied to a chair and made to listen to the full 180 minutes on Monday, and then compelled write a four page report for bosses Bob and Jim on how this had anything to do with distinctive public service broadcasting.