I promise to be very
very good, and not be cranky or ill-tempered for a whole week, and not be mean to a single poor person on the phone at the office, nor to scrinch up my nose when talking to the crazy ladies...
Paxman also warned that Newsnight, the BBC's flagship current affairs programme, might not survive if proposed cuts are carried out.
The bigger question is whether the BBC itself has a future.
"I don't want to be apocalyptic, on the basis of what may turn out to be short-term problems.
"But I think it foolish to be too confident on that score. I guess there'll certainly be one more licence fee settlement. But can we really be certain there'll be a fourth? Or a fifth?
"It is all too easy to imagine a future in which our grandchildren will talk of having had an ancestor who worked for the BBC in the same way as people nowadays mention having had a grandparent or great-grandparent who worked for the Sudanese Political Service, or was a District Officer in Bechuanaland."
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