Sacrifice the Weatherman

After weatherman Geoff wraps up another soggy forecast, the Breakfast News sofa presenters turn to the morning's viewer emails, all of which are about him. The first writers merely call him a jinx, but each new message raises the stakes: the gods are angry, his blood must be spilled to save the harvest, he should be burned on a pyre, and a self-styled heretic slayer promises an obsidian knife. Mike and his co-host read every one in the same bright breakfast-television tone, Geoff gamely notes that sacrificing weathermen is not yet BBC policy, and the presenters cheerfully launch a phone vote on his fate, reminding licence-fee payers that it is their BBC.

The yes and no phone-vote numbers shown on screen, 020 7946 0857 and 020 7946 0858, fall within the London block that Ofcom reserves for fictional use in TV and radio dramas.