Sean Rafferty tells Henrietta Bredin how an abbot persuaded him to make his first recording
Six minutes to go before the daily live broadcast of BBC Radio Three’s In Tune goes on air and the atmosphere is full of a sort of supercharged alertness, of tension expertly controlled by a small team of people who all know exactly what they are doing.

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