‘Listeners may find some of the content disturbing,’ said the announcer before the programme began (a warning that was also given in the Radio Times).
‘Listeners may find some of the content disturbing,’ said the announcer before the programme began (a warning that was also given in the Radio Times). You’d have thought we were about to hear a particularly raunchy play, or some horrific accounts of death by torture, murder or old age.

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