What Mark Thompson might say to his Holiness

The BBC director general, Mark Thompson , is likely to be among those meeting the pope when he visits Westminster abbey on Friday , Monkey hears. Without a BBC1 controller and soon to be in need of a new BBC chairman (if indeed the doomed BBC Trust warrants a new chairman at all), Roman Catholic Thommo could probably do with a little help from on high. "Forgive me, for I tried to axe BBC 6 Music ... what is that you say, your Holiness? ... Is Ben Collins really the Stig? "