You are not alone, my friend, even though we may be called fuddy-duddy reactionaries or whatever!

I, for one, was delighted with the one-liner Sandy used in the programme!
"It was the Tories that put the 'n' in cuts!!"
Far from it being  "swearing" on air, I thought it a rather clever pay-off.

Surely what all this is about is "dumbing down". If there is one recurring theme that seriously concerns me about the old girl I fought so hard to be a part of, it is the abandonment of any kind of standard in the haste to appeal to "everybody", whoever he, she or what, is. On Have I Got News For You last TX, two weeks ago, the panellist used a by-pass phrase rather than the obscenity...that loathsome Jo Brand then said the whole F word.   It didn't improve my education, it didn't inform me, and it certainly did not entertain me.  Dumbing down IS a political process and it patronises the electorate. It is sectarian. It is divisive. It destroys what we know as culture. Don't you get it?   You have only to see the day-by-day reduction of "journalism" to gossip and gobbledeygook on BBC News On-Line to have the evidence revealed that we have actually gone backwards by more than half a century in the last five years.   Local Radio in the 80s had more guts, more integrity, more challenge than anything I hear today on the networks. And it never, ever, relied on C words, F words or smut.  I rest my case.

PPMs don't waggle around "6" any more, the needle is wrapped round the end-stop so often it's welded itself to it.
Or the red LEDs are burnt-out.

See posts in "For Those Of Sound mind" regarding incessant music.

I am trying to form a new club:-
M.I.M.E.

Music Impairs My Enjoyment.

We do not need music to 'point-up' a scene change.

Let My Ears Breath. Give me silence, let me hear the birdsong, don't cover it with 'music'.
"The One Show", "Countryfile", are the sort of programmes with items that are bought-in, and dubbed by ... ?

And the item destroyed by...?

Thank goodness for subtitles.

Nobody cares anymore.

The Jim Naughtie incident was a slip of the tongue and as such can be forgiven.

John W seeing as you have asked, telling someone how to spell a word is really no different from saying it. For instance, put the p in sell and you get spell. Knowing you are, or appear to be, a word-smith I have done my best to ensure that my example is accurate.

Finally, I maintain that to delight in scripted items such as this is to deprecate the BBC's standards.

LOL!