It's almost worth missing Start the Week and In Our Time for the sheer pleasure of not having to listen to Libby Purves and Midweek for a while.
Does anyone like that programme? I think it gets worse and worse and LP is an appalling interviewer. And to add insult to injury, if she's not on they replace her with the smuggest man in the world - yes Hardeep Singh Kohli I do mean you.