"You can't programme unless you can learn to think in logical steps, " he says.
The brutal fact is that if the bill isn't in the programme, Lords Reform won't happen in this Parliament.
But that doesn't fit the programme-makers simple message - the City is to blame.
"I was surprised when I saw it because I didn't read the programme, " he said.
The government is offering 10 days for this stage of the bill - but if it doesn't get its programme motion, it can expect the debates to drag on rather longer.
When Wood and co-presenters Adam Ferrara and Tanner Foust got a letter from the sharp-tongued Clarkson - who has said American focus groups "just don't get" the programme - they were understandably nervous.
The thrust of his argument, which was also made by Willem Buiter last autumn, is that the Greek programme doesn't add up.
Today's job numbers from the US are a reminder that the space programme isn't the only feature of postwar America that seems to have gone into reverse.
And I'll tell Parliament first about his report if you don't mind not, rather than your programme ...
There was an initial hitch with my relationship with the North East and Cumbria section of the programme - I wasn't presenting it.
Mr McCain wants workers to have personal investment accounts as part of Social Security but hasn't explained how to make the overall programme solvent.
Gazing at the picture whilst on my guided tour of the paper - part of my exciting experiment as the guest editor of Radio 4's Today programme - I couldn't help wondering what Bill, who died in 2007 at the age of 94, would make of the extraordinary transformation that has taken place since his death.
We didn't get into that in today's programme, but I'd be interested to know what you think.
Whatever the reason, when we went to see him after our first programme, he still hadn't had the prints in his client's case analysed.
"Don't think that there are serious problems with the programme and that Fischer has come to solve them, " Michael Deppler, the IMF's European department director, told the Milliyet newspaper on Friday.
We have been running the programme for ten years and we don't like to change the basic technology.
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"These organisations felt that the figures didn't add up in the longer term for the Work Programme as a whole, " said former director Anna Burke.
Having unqualified programme contributors state that "they can't ever remember it being so bad" just doesn't cut the mustard if you're looking for a scientific base for your conclusions.
He told the Today programme that "elements of the recipe haven't worked" and that Greece needs a couple of years more to reach their fiscal targets or "our country will be torn apart".
"The championships are the culmination of the season and the skaters normally have a break afterwards before resuming their programme for next season, so there isn't much of a window before a postponement would start impacting on next season's preparations, " he stated.
Mr Obama proposed reforms to reduce the cost of Medicare, a federal healthcare programme for pensioners, but argued "we can't just cut our way to prosperity".
"We're not going back to 'fire at will', where somebody can be fired just because you don't like them, " he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"Everybody thinks we have good players in Europe, and don't need to prepare, " Adamu told the BBC's African sport programme Fast Track.
"At least two other councils - East Lindsey and South Kesteven - have also given their notice to withdraw and if we don't give our notice then we will automatically be rolled on into the new programme and end up picking up their bill, " he said.
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"We shouldn't get out our hankies for the Germans just yet", he told the programme.
The UK government's programme of welfare reform as they call it to my mind isn't about welfare reform at all.
"To say that this is all in the Church I just don't think it is true, " he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"Something like this couldn't possibly happen in the UK, " Racing Post spokesman Wally Pyrah told the programme, explaining how regulations covering UK bookmakers prevent them from taking these kind of bets.
But speaking on the Today programme, the former Conservative leader Lord Howard insisted "there isn't going to be any further transfer of power" from the UK to Brussels so "the referendum issue doesn't arise".
You can't criticise a book without opening the cover any more than you can criticise a TV programme without switching on the box.
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