PM presenter Eddie Mair's latest Guardian column has won himself few friends.

It it, he takes a pop at the "unheralded producers who get a moment or two of fame by appearing on the radio as famous people."

Mair claims his production staff would "crawl over broken glass and throttle any of Tony Blair's children and eat their brains, just for a few seconds of airtime."

Not a particularly flattering way to describe the people who do Mair's research, write his scripts, edit his interviews and keep him on air day in, day out.