Why was the BBC Radio London coverage so exasperating? Let's park their celebrity obsession for now. We can, we have to work with that. The flaw is in the nature of breakfast radio. Separating the two sides of the story by an hour means that, because people dip in and out of as they potter about in the morning and because most who travel to work are on their way by eight (nad if on the tube or bus unlikely to be listening any more) few people would have heard any challenge to the reasonable sounding bad guys. Simple really.