Unwitting scheduler

“Hi. ... Oh by the way, is your wife here?”

In June 2019, prominent BBC Radio 1 deejay Greg James took to Twitter to chastise an unnamed producer in front of his some 1.59 million followers. The latter, he alleged, phoned his wife, Bella Mackie—a writer of some renown herself—in an effort to reach him to schedule something.

Instead of being grateful for an opportunity, the couple, or at least Jam…