Watching BBC World TV’s trailer for its current affairs strand Hard Talk where I’m staying in Amman, Jordan tonight, and cringeing at how weird and out of touch the BBC’s world is.
Grayson Perry, the transvestite potter is tonight’s subject. Hard Talk wants to find out ‘how a transvestite potter has talked the British Museum into exhibiting his work’, meaning oceans of air-time commenting on and explaining a perversion that used to be considered too extreme even for policemen to discuss with me, when I was a young reporter.
