The long-running UK arts TV programme The South Bank Show starts a new series tonight Sunday 22 August 2004. It is devoted to profiles of 4 London buskers.

The Radio Times preview contains the following:

The only good quote comes from one daft musician: "Busking and begging are completly different things. You can't even put them in the same sentence." But you just did!

The writer here does seem to be trying to make a clever point here but has chosen to miss the point that if this statement was not made in response to a specific question from those making the film - it was a question that the makers would have wished to examine. The fact that the musician put busking and begging in the same sentance, to possibly defend one, simply reflects this.