An email has zoomed around the world and popped into my inbox – which admittedly would be more impressive if it hadn’t been sent by the person sitting next to me.

It links to a clip on YouTube featuring yesterday’s debate between London mayoral candidates Boris Johnson and Brian Paddick on the BBC Asian Network (pop fact: I went to primary school with one of the Asian Network’s presenters).

Boris tries to label Brian (who has three decades’ experience in the police force) as soft on crime – only to have to eat his words once challenged.

Here’s the clip:

I like the “Brian Paddick is the only candidate with a proven record of fighting crime” bit at the end – it makes him sound like Batman. Meanwhile, at stately Wayne Manor…

Last night, I went to the recording of a new radio sitcom called Hut 33 at the recently refurbished (and very art deco) Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House. Despite having been in the audience for a few TV shows, it was my first time at a radio recording.

The show itself was pretty good, in a fairly run-of-the-mill Radio 4 sitcom kind of way. It’s set in a codebreaking hut in Bletchley Park in 1941 – with hilarious consequences. They recorded two episodes yesterday, the first of which is being broadcast this morning at 11.30am on Radio 4. It’s worth a listen if you fancy a mid-morning chuckle.

It’s got a pretty cast, including:

• Robert Bathurst, mostly of Cold Feet and My Dad’s the Prime Minister fame although I know him from Joking Apart and recently saw him on stage in Whipping it Up (he is very tall)
• Tom Goodman-Hill off of the sketch show Spoons and the film Festival
• Olivia Colman off of pretty much every comedy going at the moment, and in particular Peep Show, That Mitchell and Webb Look/Sound, Green Wing and Confetti
• Lill Roughley off of Victoria Wood
• and Fergus Craig of comedy duo Colin & Fergus who I’ve failed to see every year at the Edinburgh Fringe

If you miss today’s broadcast, you can almost certainly Listen Again (or, rather, for the first time) on the BBC Radio 4 website.

Truro Lib Dem MP Matthew Taylor, once the youngest MP, is standing down to spend more time with his family. Full story on the BBC site and on Guardian Unlimited.

A special treat on the Doctor Who advent calendar today. If you’re looking forward to New Year’s Day’s introductory episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures (series title subject to change, according to DWM), take a look for a short clip.