Two years ago, in a bid to boost listener numbers and woo a younger constituency, the network's controller, Roger Wright, tinkered with the schedules to include more chat and asked presenters to invite people to tweet their thoughts.
The show's attempts to freshen its offering post-Paxman – from asking presenter Emily Maitlis to interview the crude comedian "Dapper Laughs", to cooking squirrel roadkill live on air – have led to it being dubbed "infantile".
And while we sadly didn't get a chance to ask presenter Stephen Colbert to share his beauty regimen, we did learn a thing or two about heels, eyebrows and of course, moisturizer.
Because of our research, we now ask presenters to design their grand rounds presentations so that the instructional content contains a mixture of current science and practical application and targeted to the level of the generalist.
"How should that work?" she asked the presenter.
Personal slurs and mud-slinging?" he was asked by presenter Isabel Webster.
The Guardian first flagged the footage from 2012 on Thursday night, in which Johnson is asked by presenter Nicky Campbell if he would support the fight against homophobia.
Asked by presenter Dermot O'Leary what advice Brian May would give to this year's hopefuls drawing on his 43 years in the music business, the guitarist said: "Believe".
