Dreadnought, I think the point is that you don't ask the BBC, the BBC ask you, you submit with many others and they choose. A production company has to be involved. Now a company needs work and profits so they will obviously want to pitch an idea for the biggest audience, as the BBC has to consider audience figures as its "profits", particularly as the licence fee will soon be under serious threat. So, we are a very small musical community the BBC considers served by Mike's show, which has all the faults, and all the pluses of a show predicated on the above conditions.