James Burke and filler

I listened part way through two of James Burke's Web of Knowledge and won't bother with the third, broadcast today. Disappointing as Tomorrow's World featured large in my youth.
I know broadcasters can't resist a quick image or sound to set the scene, or tone or to prompt our memory, but the gratuitous sound clips, as long as his slow sentences, seemed more like something from an Iannucci piss-take than professional broadcasting. I gave up when passing mention of a student "charting approaches to places like Quebec so British ships could sail in and shoot them up" was followed by twenty seconds of recorded shouting and gun fire which continued behind the narration.  Listen guys, the program is diverting little exercise in connecting historical facts and figures to each other. You can't sex that up with a few sound clips. Just balls it up.
I guess the schedulers found themselves with a ten minute program to fill a fifteen minute slot and just packed in the extraneous rubbish. "Ach, no one is really listening at lunchtime anyway".