Jeremy Vine is to be the new face of the prime-time Panorama, soon to be available as a compact. [MG] Vine has reinvented himself pretty successfully on Radio 2. Hours of daily vocal exercise have relaxed the clipped Paxman-esque diction that plagued Vine’s TV persona, and – in the un-Paxman-esque enthusiasm – you can detect trace elements of Peter Snow. Not that he’ll be dropping the radio job. These days you have to cross a few platforms to keep your currency.

Let’s hope someone in the BBC press office wrote the ‘quote’ attributed to him on the news release. It began: “Panorama is one of the BBC’s most important brands…” Next to Russell Brand, perhaps?