Did he say anything worth reporting? The BBC site doesn't have a transcript, so the answer is probably that he didn't.

But here is a link to the interview with Mike Harding last July when Howells merrily fibbed his way through a series of questions about the government's plans for "reform", making various completely spurious promises (as Mike Harding has subsequently pointed out in a recent letter to the Guardian. And here is a profile of Howells, , also from the BBC site.

One interesting thing is that in the picture on that last link Kim Howells looks an absolute dead ringer for sacked broadcaster and lecher Angus Deayton. And we know what Angus Deayton got up to...