Silence in the air
Kate Chisholm on the latest radio offerings
Last Friday’s audience in Winchester was so subdued, hardly ever clapping, let alone muttering their disapproval at an answer or even heckling, which used to happen quite a lot when the country was under Margaret Thatcher. The panel (which also included Harriet Harman, Oliver Letwin and Peter Hennessy) was so sedate, never daring to crack a joke, and definitely not interrupting each other — as if the slumping stock market has engendered a truce and no one is any longer allowed to disagree with anyone else. This may be the true outcome of the past month’s weird and shocking financial events; not so much the loss of Channel 4 radio, but a more sinister development heard not on the airwaves but underneath and through them. A gradual silencing of dissent; an acquiescence in what is decided for us by those above us.
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