First, I suppose I ought to acknowledge that having some quibbles with the 6Music schedule is a small matter; that we're lucky to have a station within whose schedules we can find fault.

But the arrival of Gilles Peterson on Sunday feels a bit curious. I suspect if he'd left Radio 1 a couple of years ago, he'd have moved to a late-night slot on Radio 2 rather than heading to 6, but with Bob Shennan on notice to stop Radio 2 getting younger, 6 it is.

I like Peterson's show, and it does feel like a boost to the line-up. But if the idea is about making it easier for 6Music listeners to find music beyond the guy-with-guitar stereotype of the nation, how does that square with the Sunday changes which see the Freakzone shunted further back into evening to make room for the good-but-hardly-challenging Tom Robinson programme?

Is 6Music wanting its audience to be discovering strange new things, which would suggest Peterson on Saturday afternoons is in the right place, or does it not, which is what the shoving off of the Freakzone implies?

Or do 6Music listeners have only a limited capacity for non-guitary music?

It's a puzzle, but not as puzzling as this line:

Liz Kershaw continues to front Saturday lunchtimes from 1-3pm

If you ever find one of the Kershaw siblings sat in your prebooked train seat, it might be wise to find somewhere to stand, as the vortex thrown up by their departure is more uncomfortable than the other option.

Liz Kershaw has just been asked to step aside from the BBC Coventry and Warwickshire breakfast show. She hasn't taken it well, circulating an email to all her colleagues (yes, colleagues, as she's still got a show on the station):

"New era eh? How sensitive to someone's feelings after 4 years of dedication and professionalism.

"I think a presenter who has put in so much and has been so publicly humiliated already by the BBC deserves better. Among their colleagues. [sic]

"Good job the listeners are wise to what's going on and more sympathetic. Watch your back Cath. Beware the Ides of March etc. Could be your turn next. Will tell you more when we meet in September. Liz."

"So publicly humiliated by the BBC"? Is that a reference to how she was prerecording 6Music programmes with faked competitions, and yet somehow managed to keep her job while all around her were losing hers?

Let's hope she never teams up with Marilyn Manson to form a revenge force.

Andy Kershaw's release from jail was heralded in the Daily Mail, somewhat surprisingly:

By Andy Kershaw? Really?

Erm... not quite - let's look at that headline again, but this time with byline attached:

Although, to be fair, once you get past Liz's preamble, there is a lengthy extract of Andy's prison's diaries; they sound positive and good-humoured:

Andy expresses the hope that he'll be back on Radio 3 soon - let's hope that's the case; we've been missing him.

Liz Kershaw is interviewed in the Media Section of the Guardian today, marking her return to 6Music after the made-up contestants that appeared on her show:

The paper doesn't press her on how, exactly, it's better for listeners to be encouraged to phone in to a programme team who had long since slung their hooks, than to simply be treated like adults and told the programme is on tape. It does, however, ask her how she feels that she's been given a new job on 6Music while her producer, Leona McCambridge, got the push:

Which is fair enough - who would willingly talk themselves out of a job - but you can't always, simultaneously be a "woman of principle" and "not bite the hand that feeds." It's also questionable exactly what principles were in play when pretending to listeners that it's worthwhile phoning in to a prerecorded show, of course.

Set against, say, Ant and Dec's fleecing of hundreds of thousands of pounds from their viewers (oh, sorry, they were merely "vanity" executive producers, weren't they?), the Liz Kershaw affair was more a misguided botch than a deliberate con, and it's refreshing that - unlike many other people at the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 who have been caught bodging, lying and conning this year - Kershaw admits she screwed up and accepts she was in the wrong.

It's just curious that once again the can is being carried by the off-air team and the presenter merely gets a reshuffle. You wonder if the daily calls and "bear-hug" from Jenny Abramsky mentioned in the article might give a clue as to why Kershaw is on 6Music again, and Cambridge is on the job market. It's never what you know, but who likes you.

The fallout from the "abuse of trust" panic at the BBC has claimed its first scalp: Liz Kerhsaw producer Leona McCambridge has been sacked, following the revelation that many of Kershaw's competition phone-ins were pre-recorded with friends masquerading as listeners.

According to the Mail's report, Lesley Douglas, controller of Radios 2 and 6, went round to McCambridge's house to sack her with three personnel staff in tow; the Mail further speculates that Ric Blaxill could also be in trouble, after he did similar things while sitting in as producer on Russell Brand's show. (Yes, former Top of the Pops' Blaxill).

The confusing thing here is that the Kershaw breach of "trust" came to light while thye BBC was conducting an amnesty over competition fudging following the Blue Peter and Saturday Kitchen mistakes; it's an odd amnesty which ends in punishment.

We're presuming the first inkling that there might have been something fishy about competition entrants on Liz Kershaw's 6Music programme - surely there weren't that many people listening in the first place? Now, as part of Mark Thompson's wobbly rolecall of dishonour, everybody knows that she managed to get callers to a pre-recorded programme by, erm, getting the production team and their mates to ring in.

Danny Baker used to manage to get around the problem of needing callers for a pre-recorded show by telling people when he'd be recording, and getting them to ring in then. But it sounds like Liz was doing the prerecords a lot more frequently.

You have to have some sympathy for WhiteLabel, the World Service's music show - sure, making up names of winners in weeks where nobody sent in a winning entry isn't strictly speaking honest, but it comes across more as a face-saving measure than a deliberate intention to mislead.

And what of the Comic Relief scandal:

The "famous couple", of course, was Buttery Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. Were the calls really lost, or was it simply that nobody who knew whose things they were wanted to try winning them?