VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Graham|DATE|1364548269|CONTENT|@ 8.50 Discussion on how the BBC handles religion.  

BBC&#039;s Head of Fantasy &amp; Myth very unimpressive.  Tried to claim that TFTD is &quot;Very successful &amp; very popular&quot;.  When challenged on this and asked for stats he tried to pass the buck by saying &#039;It&#039;s on your programme so you should know&#039;.  Sarah Montague pointed out that it&#039;s not produced by the Today prog but by his department.  He had to admit that he didn&#039;t have stats to back up his claim, but was sure the Today programme had them somewhere.  So- making extravagant claims whilst making no effort to present data to back it up.  Sounds familiar?

He also claimed they had a &quot;wide variety of people involved in it&quot; (To mis-quote Douglas Adams, this must be some new definition of &quot;wide variety&quot; of which I was previously unaware).

When the other interviewee was asked if he thought TFTD should be dumped he said- no, but get better speakers.  Amen to that.

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