Colm O'Regan: I'm the man for the BBC's best radio job, In Our Time

“I’ll just have a peppermint tea if you have it,” says a professor meekly, even though five minutes previously they were confidently explaining Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle to two million listeners.

Melvyn Bragg attends a memorial service for Sir David Frost at Westminster Abbey on March 13, 2014 in London, England. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

I have never applied for a job via my column before, but now, as brazen as can be, I am saying: Hello BBC, I know we’ve not spoken in a while, but please give me the job of presenting In Our Time after Melvyn Bragg’s retirement in July.

Melvyn who? In Our What?