Peer gets frosty reception from Humphrys as phone goes off on air

At just after 10 minutes past eight this morning, the best part of 6 million people thought their mobile phone was going off. Except it wasn't – it belonged to BBC Radio 4 Today programme guest Lord Desai, a Labour peer and economics professor at the London School of Economics, who was being interviewed by John Humphrys at the time. "Sorry, we've got, as you heard, a minor problem," interrupted Humphrys. "We will have to take Lord Desai out and shoot him, because that's the penalty for bringing a mobile phone into the studio." Blimey. Click forward to six minutes 30 seconds to hear for yourself.