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Radio 4 presenter's awkward slip of the tongue in Jeremy Hunt comment

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It’s the second time a Radio 4 presenter has dropped a clanger (Getty)
It’s the second time a Radio 4 presenter has dropped a clanger (Getty)

A presenter on BBC Radio 4’s flagship Today programme has blundered by mispronouncing the surname of Cabinet minister Jeremy Hunt.

Justin Webb made the error while reading out a newspaper story about the Health and Social Care Secretary.

Listeners heard him say: “The paper says that Health Secretary Jeremy C*** … Hunt is understood to favour a cap on social care.”

Webb claimed he had “swerved” away from pronouncing the full four-letter word, but listeners were convinced they had heard it.

You can form your own judgement from the clip below:

He was reading out a story from the Daily Express during the programme’s review of newspapers and news websites.

It is not the first time a Today presenter has been embarrassed by the Health Secretary’s name.

James Naughtie made the error while Mr Hunt was culture secretary.