Bad publicity for Skype on BBC 4's Today programme this morning during a John Humphrys interview with Sir Michael Lyons, chairman of the BBC Trust, about the latest phone-in scandal. Lyons, speaking from New Zealand, sounded as if he was at the other end of a tunnel bored through the earth. Then the connection cut off altogether. "Something called Skype has broken," said Humphrys, evidently thinking it was some species of machine. Nice to see that the BBC is trying to keep its phone bills down, though.