Faster flow

In a world of smart speakers and radio streaming, we don't necessarily need diaries and market research to capture changes in listening habits. BBC Sounds recorded 3.5m listeners last week — up more than 200,000 on the previous week (but still, he niggled, only 500k more than the old Radio iPlayer).  Listening to live BBC radio streams is up by 18% in a week - I suspect driven by those away from tvs at the time of the coronavirus briefings and ministerial statements.

• On Radio 4, Nick Robinson revealed, at the end of the Today programme, that both he and co-host Martha Kearney, were live from their homes. This is thought to be the first time in this crisis that the two main presenters had been away from the beady-eyed and frantic glare of a studio team.