And the winner of today’s phone-in quiz is . . . Jeremy Vine. The BBC can resume phone-in competitions as long as members of the public are replaced by employees, it seems.

The BBC suspended all radio and TV phone-in competitions on Wednesday after uncovering a string of deceptions. But Ken Bruce, the Radio 2 DJ, broadcast his popular Popmaster quiz yesterday.

In line with revised guidelines, the contestants were Vine, his fellow Radio 2 presenter, and the traffic reporter Lynn Bowles. The usual prize of a digital radio was not on offer. Bruce told listeners: “We’re going to bring Popmaster back today. We’re not going to have members of the public taking part in it.

“Instead we’re going to have BBC staff taking part in it. Explain that to me. But we’re allowed to do that. There are no prizes and you may not phone in for it.”

A Radio 2 spokeswoman explained: “Members of the public can’t enter by phone so we have brought it back with BBC staff.”

Last year BBC employees were drafted in to pose as audience members for Top of the Pops when it was discovered that the corporation had no licence to stage live music for the public.

Senior BBC presenters are unhappy that they will be expected to attend a training programme in editorial standards and honesty. Andrew Neil, the BBC politics host, compared the events to “Pol Pot-style education camps”.

The suspension of phone-in competitions followed the emergence of deceptions involving Children In Need, Comic Relief, Sports Relief, the children’s channel CBBC, the World Service and 6 Music.

On each occasion, viewers were invited to call in — but the winners were either members of the production teams or entirely fictitious.

Liz Kershaw, the 6 Music presenter, who presented a fake quiz in a pre-recorded show, is expected back on air at 10am. Senior producers on several other shows have been suspended.

ITV yesterday announced that it has suspended new commissions from RDF Media, the independent company, which produced the trailer portraying the Queen supposedly storming out of a photo shoot. The BBC has already suspended new work from the company pending the outcome of an internal inquiry.

RDF’s shares fell by another 15 per cent in early trading as a result of ITV’s announcement. Channel 4 said it was sticking by the company, which produces its shows Wife Swap and Faking It.

The BBC is to establish a new editorial standards board to oversee the corporation’s response to serious editorial breaches in a number of programmes. The board will be chaired by Mark Byford, the deputy director-general. Will Wyatt, the former chief executive of BBC Broadcast, will conduct a separate inquiry into the release of misleading footage of the Queen.

Last night Endemol, the Big Brother producers, said that scenes billed as “live” in a Five programme, Killer Shark Live, were actually pre-recorded.The series, filmed in California, was broadcast in October 2005 and can no longer be investigated by Ofcom. Five said: “Some of the sequences from the boat were billed as live when they had been pre-recorded earlier on the vessel.”

An internal inquiry is under way.

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