What Mark Thompson might say to his Holiness

The BBC director general, Mark Thompson, is likely to be among those meeting the pope when he visits Westminster abbey on Friday, Monkey hears. Without a BBC1 controller and soon to be in need of a new BBC chairman (if indeed the doomed BBC Trust warrants a new chairman at all), Roman Catholic Thommo could probably do with a little help from on high. "Forgive me, for I tried to axe BBC 6 Music ... what is that you say, your Holiness? ... Is Ben Collins really the Stig?"