Gavin & Stacey star Joanna Page's guilt over failure to watch James Corden in One Man, Two Guvnors Jim Naughtie, who also works on the Radio 4 programme, was not, however, in a mood to carp at the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. "It's a difficult time for all of us in the BBC," Naughtie told me. I wouldn't want to make any grand comparisons between radio and TV. Humphrys, meanwhile, declines to comment on a tale I'd heard about how, after his encounter with Entwistle, he had sent the poor booby a note to say that it had been "nothing personal." Tony Hall, who, as I disclosed, is Anna Ford's tip to be the next D-G, seems to be in pole position. So long as it is not Robert Peston, breaker of so many stories helpful to Rupert Murdoch, the BBC probably has a future. Stand up comic I have said it before and I'll doubtless say it again, but Will Gompertz is a creepy one. The sight of the BBC's arts editor watching intently, at close quarters, as Jonjo O'Neill, stark naked, jumped on top of Billie Piper during the first night of Lucy Enron Prebble's play, The Effect, at the National did not disabuse me of the notion. Still, nothing can surprise old Gompertz. In a one-man show at the Edinburgh Fringe, he once asked members of his audience to draw penises. He kept one - "an absolutely sensational pop art penis," he said, thrilled.