Roger and out

I'm guessing that Radio 4 are ready to say goodbye to Roger Bolton when they decide who gets to make Feedback for the next four years. The tender documents say:

"Your ideas for the presenter of the programme will be a key element in our evaluation of your bid.... They will need to have the ability to be recognised by a diverse audience as understanding and fairly representing their range of views to BBC executives and other staff who appear on the programme....We will need to know whether you have approached any presenters you propose and whether they have expressed a willingness to take on this broadcasting commitment, in the event that you are successful."

Roger, 76 (Carlisle Grammar School and Liverpool University) says, in the puff for his autobiography, "His proudest achievement... was to be made boy captain of Denton Holme Primary School in Carlisle, and to be picked as goalkeeper, once, for the Carlisle Youth team. They lost. As a child he had a big head. Readers can judge whether that has changed. He was accident prone, stabbing himself in the nose and buttocks and putting his arm through an electric mangle. He overacted in several Grammar School plays and flirted with becoming a priest, until common sense, and girls, prevailed."  He joined the BBC as a general trainee in 1967, and was fired twice over reporting the Troubles in Northern Ireland.