Radio 4 show In Our Time celebrates its landmark 1,000th episode this week. Host Melvyn Bragg is one of the Beeb’s biggest stars, but it seems his salary hardly puts him on level pegging with some of the corporation’s other big names.
In an interview marking In Our Time‘s millennial episode, Bragg gently points out that he is paid 27 times less than Match of the Day host Gary Lineker – even though the two shows get similar audiences.
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