Bumped into the Midnight Weatherman on Chelmsford station, so we travelled in together, gossiped together and got delayed together. The joys of public transport.

He’d been back to ITN a couple of weeks ago to pick up some tapes or a machine or something, and been into the old LBC studios, which are apparently perfectly preserved and look just the way they were after we finished our last show there - only tidier. Kind of like an LBC museum, he said.

I’m not sure I’d want to go back and see them if I got the chance. It would be interesting, but it would be like looking at a dead relative laying in a coffin. The faders would all be down, the speakers would be mute and the big rectangular LBC speech bubble would be hanging from the clock on studio 1 as it always did only now, without presenters pushing past it and absent mindedly knocking it back and forth while listening to callers, gathering dust. LBC has moved on to better studios on a better frequency, but I have a lot of happy memories of the things that went on in those studios and the stuff we got up to that never went out on air, and to see them empty and silent would probably wipe some of that out.

The day pretty much picked up where Friday left off. Tesco on the way home, then the evening in front of Sky One - a true rarity - to watch the Michael Jackson interview; his version of the ‘reality’ behind the Martin Bashir expose of last month.

It would have been engaging had it been an hour shorter - and had it not been fronted my Maury Povich. But it will have done no end of harm to Martin Bashir’s reputation. I said after the original Jackson interview went out, and the story was so skewed towards a Jackson/monster mentality that it would be pretty much the end of Bashir’s career as a celebrity interviewer, but this more or less confirms it, showing Bashir as totally two-faced and picking out the highly selective editing of the original programme.

True, as a journalist Bashir will have wanted to show what he considered the ‘best bits’ to make sure he engaged the audience, but it does seem he went rather too far.

It’s a shame. It’s shown, once again, that British TV is not what people say it is - the best in the world. It, like British manufacturing, British industry and the British Empire is now no longer what it used to be. America used to envy British television - so they say - but after we sent them the Weakest Link, Simon Cowell (Pop Idol - or as they call it American Idol) and now Martin Bashir, all we have shown them is that British TV is as trashy and spiteful as British tabloids.

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