BBC Radio 4's Nigel Wrench defended himself against rape charges in court today: "I said to him 'Let's go to bed'. He smiled and said yes. The last thing - that is the irony of the situation, isn't it? - I would have done is to harm him." [Guardian]

Is there a BBC Radio gay curse? First Radio Four's Nigel Wrench gets caught up in a rape trial, now new details reveal that Radio One's DJ Kevin Greening died last year after a bondage session gone awry: "Paramedics reportedly found the body of the 44-year-old DJ, who was openly gay, hanging upside down in a bondage harness. The room also contained roles of black industrial tape, boxing gloves and nipple clamps…" We hope he died happy. [Telegraph via GNW]

BBC radio host Nigel Wrench may be in a heap of trouble: "A gay BBC radio presenter spiked a man's champagne after a party and forced him to submit to a sex act, a rape trial jury heard yesterday. Nigel Wrench, 47, who fronted the PM show on Radio 4, is said to have used the drug Temazapam on the 26-year-old. The man was punched, kicked, scratched and bitten at the defendant's home, the court heard." Wrench also allegedly gave the 26-year old - wait for it - cocaine during a party. The beast!