Kate Chisholm

Why we must defend Radio 3 from threatened cuts

The point of BBC Radio 3 is not to reach as broad an audience as possible but to be as broad-ranging as possible

Wyndham Lewis, seated, listens to an adaptation of his book The Childermass in 1951 for BBC's Third Programme. [Photo: SuperStock / Alamy Stock Photo]
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