The BBC is trying desperately to defend the indefensible.
The idea that a radio format needs time to 'bed in' like it's a newly seeded lawn is the only response they can make in the light of the singular failure of their change, which was clearly doomed from the start.
The BBC makes much of the 'massive talent' and 'vast experience' of its two presenters. Fine - so why can't they sound less like a couple of prisoners manacled together, and more like what they are supposed to be - professional and highly paid presenters who are supposed to like and respect each other.
If radio presenters are going to work well together, then they, and everyone else knows that by the end of the first week. Clearly it does not take six months!
The lines were drawn in that first week. Both presenters were thrust together, probably against their own personal wishes, because they could see it would not work, and why wouldn't they - everyone else did!
They are clearly gritting their teeth and making the best of a seriously bad situation until someone somewhere owns up and separates them again.
This will mean someone at the BBC admitting that not only has the experiment failed - six months, six years, whatever, it's not going to change because it can't change - and they simply are unable to do that at the BBC.
Failure is not an option - heaven knows why! People make mistakes, that's why they put rubbers on the end of pencils.
So the deserting listeners, who actually pay for thie debacle,