Link is a four-letter word for Radio 4

Listeners of BBC Radio 4 got rather more fruity language than they were expecting on Tuesday. The Telegraph reports that the veteran continuity announcer Peter Jefferson swore, thinking his mic was turned off after nearly crashing the pips at the top of the hour. "The continuity announcers have to do all their own technical operating these days, which I think worries a few of them who are rather more superannuated than the others," one BBC insider said. A BBC spokesman apologised for any offence caused.