BBC's tips topped

It's an odd eccentricity of BBC radio 4's Today programme that they still give out racing tips. Especially since it's quite a high brow show, I've often wondered why they do it, and what sort of credentials they have, so was interesting to hear that one listener had been logging and checking their tips for the last year. And their success rate? 20% , or 100 winners out of ~500 tips.
Not exactly amazing, but seems when compared to other sources (eg tips on newspapers) this seems about average. The test seems to be how much of one's stake is retained cumulatively, and their 88% is in the middle of the 86-93% range for such tipsters.
So not a lot of reason to use them it seems! If had bet one euro on each horse, would be down €67 by end of the year. Though again about average so,as they said, their slogan could be ‘bet with us - you won’t lose too much!!!'
Also liked the idea of logging john humphrey’s (known as the beeb's political attack dog) questions for the next year – and more importantly – how many of them  get an answer!