Vote, vote, vote for Kelvin MacKenzie

May I urge all of Kelvin MacKenzie's friends, former colleagues, enemies, his ex-wife, Jackie, everyone, to call 09011 16 12 01, thereby registering a vote on Kelvin's behalf to host Woman's Hour. Well, to co-present it with Martha Kearney. By making the call you donate money to Comic Relief's Red Nose Day.

First, though, tune in to Kelvin's pitch for the job in which he urges women to "get back to the sink" and calls for more Woman's Hour features on the lines of "How to make the dinner for your man when he comes home". He wishes to confront the "propaganda machine" which convinces women they are no longer slaves. "That must change", he says. He also wishes to bring out his "metro-sexual side" to overcome the widely-held view that, as a former Sun editor, he is a sexist!

Predictably, by putting his head above the parapet, he has already attracted hostility. The Liverpool Post reports that "angry Liverpool fans" have criticised the BBC for entertaining him because of his "infamous 'truth' coverage of the Hillsborough disaster". I can understand why. As Matthew Norman reminded us the other day, Kelvin "is still unsure" whether he should apologise for his Hillsborough coverage. He remains, I suspect, as anti-Scouse as ever and cannot bring himself to say sorry to the city's people.

However, I would love to hear the March 16 Woman's Hour with him at the helm (rather than the other two choices, Richard Hammond and Andy Hamilton). He is a genuine one-off, a complex mixture of unreconstructed chauvinist, unapologetic xenophobe, unacceptable bully, right-wing ranter and self-deprecating comedian. Oddly, in spite of the somewhat negative characteristics, it's the latter which tends to overshadow the rest. You can laugh with him and at him. Go on, make the call.