Monty Don is a great gardening progamme man (and writer). About Charlie Dimmock, all one can say(tactfully) is that she is extraordinarily watchable, but not for reasons wholly connected with gardening.
    Calling in the support of John Humphreys to criticise TV dumbing down is a bit weird, when you see what he's done to debase Today on Radio 4 from a news programme into part gladiator show/part propaganda machine.