Ok so Sir Terence of Wogan is blameless as always but I’ll make an example of him, seeing as the only show the Beeeeeb have named in connection with the latest set of phone-in scandals was the travesty which is Eurovision: Making Your Mind Up, a somewhat ironic title given the mindlessness of the concept and quality of the contenders. Anyway, it appears that £6k was squirreled away from this show alone by the premium rate phone line provider who, very interestingly, is a subsidiary of BBC Worldwide (conflict of interest my a**e). The usual rigmarole of lines not being open when the numbers were announced is to blame apparently for this and over twenty other shows with revenues of over £100k being diverted from the charitable causes which should have benefitted.

Technology has been put in place to avoid a repeat in the future apparently (err, just don’t tell people the numbers ’til you open the lines you idiots) and all money has been repaid with interest according to the BBC ‘Trust’. Oh the irony.