I found the Today programme items pointless. No librarians speaking, no discussion about innovations in services, discussion at level that could have been 20 years ago.
Talking about the disappointing coverage to my friends who are (or have been) editors of national papers, etc, they say you have to remember that journalists are very lazy. This must apply to the Radio 4 producers and editors who yet again have failed to get any proper insight into what libraries are doing about such 'crises' in library service use.