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The ever-helpful Justin Webb, at just 59 developing a presentation style based on The Major in Fawlty Towers, has shared his current thinking on broadcasting with the Radio Times.

"When BBC bosses say the young aren't listening to BBC radio any more and we have to treat this as an emergency and run around as if our pants were on fire, my first reaction is, 'Hey, what took you so long?'

"My second is... Perhaps the young will get old. It has happened before. Perhaps radio will outlive this panic, as it has outlived all others.

"'But it will only outlive the panic if well-meaning bosses resist the temptation to destroy the wireless in order to save it. The temptation will be to reduce the funding of the core programmes and chop up its output into the bite-sized chunks those in charge think 'yoof' might consume."