The station’s audience is too narrow. But worse,it is failing to channel the original spirit in classical musicRadio 3 – or the Third Programme, as it was called for its first two decades – is 70 years old on 29 September. Its founding father was William Haley, or a former managing director of the Manchester Guardian,who became the BBC’s director general in 1944 and remade BBC radio for a peacetime world.
Haley's vision was that the nation's culture was a pyramid with a lamentably wide base and a lamentably narrow tip Related: A musical tour of Europe's great cities: Hamburg Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com