Money worries

John Humphrys, now almost fully ensconced as a Daily Mail curmudgeon (was he always in plain hiding?), is unhelpful about BBC 'talent' salaries. 

"The BBC is getting it in the neck for paying its talent silly salaries. Or some of them."

He suggests the BBC should be taking a cut from presenters' side earnings: "After all, we only get asked because we're a bit famous. And who made us famous?" One presumes he'd have been prepared to disclose his Mail earnings, before the BBC tried to end the practice. Or, perhaps, in the spirit of transparency, how much he's earning now, from the Mail and Classic FM ?

John admits he was overpaid (though is clearly upset that Gary Lineker was much more overpaid). But there were, weren't there, times when commercial companies came calling with more on the table ?