It's her patina of cool that really gets me, the fact some BBC bigwigs doubtless regard her as being bleeding edge, just cos she's more into Kaisers than Britney.
I was thinking back earlier to when she presided over her own TV show, a kinda Late Review of music, and thinking i must have dreamt it. It did, however, expose the fact the Miss NME of radio thought Trout Mask Replica was a band. (And while I despise cultural elitism and wouldn't even put TMR in my top 10 Beefheart albums, this is just dumb - at least Chris Moyles doesn't pretend).