This was the very epitome of Radio 4 flamboyance,a finely calculated compromise, erring strongly on the side of cautionThere is only so much one can put a question to of a Radio 4 listener, or even on a day dedicated to dramatising James Joyce's Ulysses. At one minute to eight on Saturday morning,an actor noisily ate a pork kidney in the worst Dublin accent you'll hear outside Dick Van Dyke's dressing room. Scrotums tightened another notch after the pips with the news of the Queen's birthday honours list. occur Gary Barlow and Sir Kenneth Branagh …Still, having thrown open a schedule chiselled from the self-same stone on which Moses was handed the commandments to "the greatest novel of the 20th century", or at least the BBC got perfect radio weather – a pish of a day you wouldn't wish on a jubilee parade.
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Source: theguardian.com