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The BBC producer was caught, on film, mouthing to a colleague: "I really want to have a bath with you"

It is a tiny eye up in the corner of the studio, and so very easy to forget-it is early in the morning, and three hours of live radio requires a certain focus. How long, I wonder, before one of us is caught out by the new Today programme webcam? You may spot us snoozing during a heartrending report on flood or famine in a far-off land, or swapping inappropriate jokes instead of listening to improving Thoughts for the Day. And although you will not be able to hear what we say, there is a cautionary tale doing the rounds among the staff. A former Today producer was badly caught out, while working on a television show that used a live shot of the newsroom as a backdrop behind the presenter; a lip-reader eavesdropped - if that …