Best Bits - your suggestions

As there is a near zero application to literature on dumbed down daytime 5live I suggest you put Dotuns Up All Night book review section on your Best Bits each week for starters and as I suggested before Rhod Sharps interview with the guy who has written about the Moby Dick author, Herman Melville.Lets higher the 5live standards a little shall we.

As a schoolteacher, I am well used to giving praise in front of a class to one of the poorer children in a group. This is a known technique which boosts the self esteem of the individual and, with any luck, the other children have a higher opinion of the said child.

This method works particularly well in practical subjects where the talents of the less able child are often cruelly mocked by his or her peers.

May I respectfully suggest that young Bacon has in this instance been chosen to look better in front of the whole school at assembly!

Brian Cox must grit his teeth every time his past comes back as an introduction to who he is - usually in written or verbal brackets- he is a brilliant physicist and that is how he should be defined.

For future episodes of Best Bits can we have the rudeness shown by Richard Bacon to not one but two callers on his show today as he cut them off? If you wish to hear it on iplayer it is on the last 5 minutes or so of his show...

@4 Certainly not one of 5 Lives best bits but I think #2 has a point so it may appear.



If Bacon had let the guy speak rather than keep interrupting with ‘has it got a good ending?’ he might have managed to finish describing his experience. Then to cut him off abruptly and take another caller who he also cut off was unprofessional and rude.



Bacon not everything can be said in 140 characters or less!

It's quite astonishing how Bacon survives. But as we know, no one reads the blogs, no one responds (my interview offer anybody?) and of course, we are all listeners who only pay for this junket so does it matter?



When oh when will someone own up to accountability as opposed to hiding behind the sofa?



Anyone offering such a poor service in the real world, as opposed to working in the the BBC bubble would be gone in days.



Jack getting exaperated.

Oxymoron (almost literally!!) comes to mind.

I see Bacon’s poor interview with Peter Sissons has ‘surprisingly’ made it on to best bits. This was a poor, argumentative and unprofessional interview. Why the aggression because Sissons made a few criticisms of the BBC? Did Bacon really need to keep going on about what is the favourite newspaper at the BBC? Sissons had a career of over 40 years but instead Bacon focused on a few lines of criticism of the BBC in the book.