Just before 7am in the morning is probably not the ideal time to be thinking about Champagne, but such are the perils of working on an early morning news programme such as BBC Radio 4's Today. Except Jim Naughtie's interview with a French professor about the importance of bubbles to a glass of, er, bubbly, didn't go down quite as smoothly as a bottle of Dom Perignon '55. Indeed, Monkey can't help feeling something was lost in translation in the interview, which began around 54 minutes into this morning's show. Co-presenter Evan Davis brought everyone down to earth: "I remember getting that effect with a sweet called Space Dust. Think it's called Fizz Wizz now. Delicious. And it's much cheaper." Cheers!
