The BBC must be very careful. It has a great reputation, and it enhances our status and image worldwide.

It’s the one radio broadcaster accepted internationally as the truthful one.

So, it’s vital that we must be able to rely on it to maintain standards and to set the bench mark.

Those presenters, comedians or whatever, who peddle so called ‘edgy humour’, which, to me, is of the lowest sort – not funny and often downright cruel – should relearn their craft and realise that working for such a prestigious corporation as the BBC carries high responsibilities.

But while they are at it, the BBC also should review its fee-paying policy, the money they are paying folk like Jonathan Ross is outrageous.